affectionateness
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
Your villa is admirable, and you yourself, as you sit there, are the personification of comfort, the personification, too, of gentle, sweet, undemonstrative affectionateness.
From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
Tears came into Salvina's eyes at her sister's affectionateness.
From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel
