affectionateness
Example Sentences
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Tears came into Salvina's eyes at her sister's affectionateness.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Israel Zangwill
Though she inherited much of the imperial energy of her mother, it was tempered and adorned with the mildness and affectionateness of her father.
From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
What it might have made for graciousness for once in my life to have been the centre of that dramatic affectionateness, I can only guess.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
There was an affectionateness in the mere outside of every one of them.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
Your villa is admirable, and you yourself, as you sit there, are the personification of comfort, the personification, too, of gentle, sweet, undemonstrative affectionateness.
From The Front Yard by Constance Fenimore Woolson
