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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Mary always spoke of this young lady in terms of the truest applause, both in relation to the eminence of her intellectual powers, and the ingenuous amiableness of her disposition.
From Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman by William Godwin
His amiableness in his own Being, therein surpassing all created things.
From True Christianity by Johann Arndt
For this first dinner five more must be invited, and Michael without much further consideration selected five freshmen whose athletic prowess and social amiableness drew them into prominence.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
But his amiableness could be traced to the fact of his being conceited of the swinish selfishness of which he had been guilty.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Charles A. Beach
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
