affectionateness

Example Sentences

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He amuses all the men everywhere by his affectionateness, and eating 346 out of my hand, and following me like a dog.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

John Packer liked to be cross and autocratic, and to oppose people; but there was hidden somewhere in his heart a warm spot of affectionateness and desire for approval.

From The Life of Nancy by Jewett, Sarah Orne

It is kindness, affectionateness, benevolence, sympathy, rejoicing with them that do rejoice, and weeping with them that weep.

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)

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 Ayscough, John

I wondered if it was because all her own crises were complicated with Henry Mills that she always thought that affectionateness was part of the answer.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter