amiable
adjective
having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities; affable.
amiableness
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a word derived from
amiable.
Example Sentences
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Young women of strong sensibility may be carried by the very amiableness of this temper into the most alarming extremes.
From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by Hannah More
His character has always been greatly extolled for the judgment which he exhibited in very trying periods, and for the amiableness of his disposition.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams
There was not a bit of sunshine in it,—no commonplace amiableness.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
He was a man of blameless morals, deep erudition, and sincere piety; and he was greatly beloved for the amiableness of his manners.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams
But the imaginative man cannot be content to regard the sea with this ignorant amiableness.
From The Book of This and That by Robert Lynd
