affectionateness
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“That was sweet of you, Hannah,” she said presently, a look of simple affectionateness chasing away the other.
From A Beautiful Alien by Julia Magruder
Touching in their affectionateness are the remarks which each passes upon each.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various
But all that is attractive, gracious, charming in behaviour, all affectionateness and friendliness, must not proceed from the concepts, for if it does, “we feel intention, and are put out of tune.”
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
What impression would the brightness, sweetness, and affectionateness of Jesus have made on the temper and disposition of John?
From Personal Friendships of Jesus by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
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
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