appreciative
adjective
feeling or showing appreciation.
appreciativeness
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a word derived from
appreciative.
Example Sentences
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Even in Gray’s—‘Pindaric Gray’s’—treatment of classical themes, there is a sort of pervading ennui, or the forced appreciativeness of a gouty, disappointed man.
From Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
In the gentleman intellectual altruism and moral appreciativeness are large elements.
From Letters from a Father to His Son Entering College by Charles Franklin Thwing
How many ingenuous boys, lads in the very flush and hey-day of appreciativeness of the epic virtues, have been parsed, declined, and conjugated into an utter detestation of the melodious names of Homer and Virgil!
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
This fills all his higher work with a generous appreciativeness, a justness of judgment, a tenderness of feeling, which elevate as well as charm the reader.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
Kendal bad introduced him to her, in a brief encounter at the Salon, and she remembered the appreciativeness of the glance that accompanied the stout middle-aged English gentleman's bow.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
