affectionateness

Example Sentences

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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

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

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)

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

"She thinks I am in love with her because I said that about affectionateness," he thought.

From The Front Yard by Woolson, Constance Fenimore