affectionateness

Example Sentences

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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

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There was an affectionateness in the mere outside of every one of them.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

Though she inherited much of the imperial energy of her mother, it was tempered and adorned with the mildness and affectionateness of her father.

From Maria Antoinette Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

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.