affectionateness
Example Sentences
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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
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
She saw Noel's father and mother again, and was greeted by the latter with a bright and conditional affectionateness that inspected even while it acclaimed.
From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.
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 Austin, Mary Hunter
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.)
