affectionateness

Example Sentences

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Touching in their affectionateness are the remarks which each passes upon each.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

Nor should this increase of affectionateness excite surprise—it is the proper result of a conflict of this sort between father and child when conducted in the right spirit.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

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 MacKenzie, Compton

The next scene is between the mother, father and daughter; Clytemnestra, full of questions about the marriage, Iphigenîa full of excitement and shy tenderness, which expresses itself in special affectionateness towards her father.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

“That was sweet of you, Hannah,” she said presently, a look of simple affectionateness chasing away the other.

From A Beautiful Alien by Magruder, Julia