affectionateness
- a word derived from affectionate.
Example Sentences
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The next scene is between the mother, father and daughter; Clytemnestra, full of questions about the marriage, Iphigenîa full of excitement and shy tenderness, which expresses itself in special affectionateness towards her father.
From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert
But all that is attractive, gracious, charming in behaviour, all affectionateness and friendliness, must not proceed from the concepts, for if it does, “we feel intention, and are put out of tune.”
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
What it might have made for graciousness for once in my life to have been the centre of that dramatic affectionateness, I can only guess.
From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter
With the utmost affectionateness and freedom of intercourse there was a certain raptness of devotion, a mingled simplicity and elevation of thought and feeling, peculiarly his own.
From Fletcher of Madeley by Macdonald, Frederic W.
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
