affectionateness
Example Sentences
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No; of anything good she was capable; no depths of love could be beyond her, and he was sure that her nature was one of deep affectionateness, left unclaimed till now.
From Mariquita A Novel by John Ayscough
He sidled and fluttered for an interval, making up his mind to a resumption of affectionateness, and finally making it up that he couldn't, and remembering an engagement somewhere for the evening.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
Very tentative they were, for he had become a boy of subdued passions, and potential rather than actual affectionateness.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
These outbreaks of despair for mankind were the more obnoxious to Jenny because they were always followed by a monstrous excess of his privileges, by an utterly abhorred affectionateness.
From Carnival by Compton MacKenzie
Julia was moving about, quite at home, preparing cups of tea for everybody, herself included; and waiting upon Mr. Rhys with a steady care and affectionateness which evidently met with an affectionate return.
From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Susan Warner
