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Example sentences for "affectionateness"

Lexicographically close words:
affectingly; affection; affectional; affectionate; affectionately; affectioned; affections; affective; affects; affectu
  1. I understand your affectionateness and tender consideration, I repeat, and thank you; and love you, which is better.

  2. I keep my thoughts as far as I can from bitter things, and the affectionateness of my dearest sisters is indeed much on the other side.

  3. We let gentle spirits starve close beside us for the words of affectionateness that lie warm, yet unspoken, on our tongues.

  4. Turning to the life of the household, affectionateness is one of the secrets of happiness.

  5. Let them restore again, for a time, something of the affectionateness of the childhood days, and see if there is not a blessing in it.

  6. He had loved other little boys and girls transitorily, none had been frequent and familiar enough to strike deep roots in his heart, and he had grown up with a tattered and dissipated affectionateness that was becoming wildly shy.

  7. Mrs. Larkins was very happy in her daughters, and they had the naïve affectionateness of those who see few people and find a strange cousin a wonderful outlet.

  8. But his was a robust and masculine admiration, having nothing in common with the effeminate extra-affectionateness that has of late been so much ridiculed.

  9. Thus his affectionateness was against him.

  10. There was an additional playful affectionateness in his manner toward Ezra.

  11. Actuated by this purpose, she took a resolution, worthy both of the strength and affectionateness of her mind.

  12. Nothing could exceed the equanimity, the patience and affectionateness of the poor sufferer.

  13. It was his sympathy that was his means of influence; it was his affectionateness which was his title and 20 instrument of empire.

  14. I speak of the discriminating 30 affectionateness with which he accepts every one for what is personal in him and unlike others.

  15. Poor Mary's young pride was sore hurt and distressed, but her old friend's wonted look of kindness was strangely coming back; she showed all her familiar affectionateness as if she had passed a great crisis.

  16. Such letters would prove that, within a few days of an attempt on his wife's virtue, and in sure cognizance of the attempt and the maker of it, Shelley wrote in terms of passionate affectionateness to the culprit.

  17. Julia was moving about, quite at home, preparing cups of tea for everybody, herself included; and waiting upon Mr. Rhys with a steady care and affectionateness which evidently met with an affectionate return.

  18. Very likely, as she maintained, it was a feeling of caste that rendered her professional affectionateness offensive to me.

  19. 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.


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