sociableness

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That government will seek the good of all is likely to be the case, because man has it as a fundamental law of his nature that he "maintain a sociableness with others."

From Unitarianism in America by Cooke, George Willis

But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles.

From Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Holliday, Carl

And such was Mr. Clare's sociableness and disability of detaching himself from pleasant conversation, that the uncle and nephew scarcely started for their walk across the park in time for the seven o'clock service.

From Clever Woman of the Family by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The every sociableness of the gathering was a paradox: the truth lay with the ice-capped hills and the ape-like nomads who infested the humid forests of the lower slopes.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis

There is nowhere a kindlier and more unaffected sociableness.

From Castilian Days by Hay, John