Adjective : an affectionate embrace. ,your affectionate brother. From Dictionary.com.
Touching in their affectionateness are the remarks which each passes upon each. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Sally's appealing affectionateness of manner went very far to make this easy. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
To this must be added a certain pathetic affectionateness, by which all his productions are pervaded. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
How can charity towards all men fail to follow, being the mere affectionateness of innocence and peace?. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
The gentle affectionateness of the girl towards both her father and her aunt was beautiful in the extreme. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
‘Give me your arm,’ she said to me with her old affectionateness, ‘it’s a long while since we have had. From Wordnik.com. [First Love] Reference
Mrs. Larkins was very happy in her daughters, and they had the naive affectionateness of those who see few people and find. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
Britons thought well of the Colonel for his affectionateness and liberality, and contrasted it with the behaviour of the Tory. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
Is it that the effort to realise an ideal of gentleness and affectionateness overreaches itself in this form of the grotesque?. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
They looked at each other again, with timid affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
The Frenchwoman thought it a pretty bit of childish affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
We may of her cleverness, -- not of her affectionateness, her nature. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference
There was now no pretence of affectionateness either on her part or on his. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
There was an additional playful affectionateness in his manner toward Ezra. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Luke replied with a sudden affectionateness one would not have expected of him. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
Napoleon cheered her by his bright intelligence and his intense affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Hortense Makers of History Series] Reference
There was a suggestion of feminine affectionateness in his bearing toward his friend. From Wordnik.com. [That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877] Reference
Turning to the life of the household, affectionateness is one of the secrets of happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Most of Life] Reference
There is a homely poetry, an innocent affectionateness, in it characteristic of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Nothing could exceed the equanimity, the patience and affectionateness of the poor sufferer. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Mr. Rhys with a steady care and affectionateness which evidently met with an affectionate return. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Helmet, Volume I] Reference
But swiftly they became troubled, doubtful, then full of a warm, rich affectionateness and laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
'I'm afraid not, dear, just then,' was the reply, given in a corresponding tone of affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
'And in proportion to their purity, I suppose,' said Claude, 'is their freedom and affectionateness?'. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
He spoke with a careless affectionateness, for the young Countess in her helpless beauty appealed to him. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Mercenary] Reference
The dearest and greatest of all my friends had a sort of beauty and affectionateness that only animals have. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference
For in what related to himself his resentful impulses had been early checked by a mastering affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
"That was sweet of you, Hannah," she said presently, a look of simple affectionateness chasing away the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Beautiful Alien] Reference
He is about as untamable as the zebra, and with his family affectionateness leads apparently a very happy life. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
Because of our constancy I expected something better than the serene affectionateness that shone in Dick's smile. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
A warm appreciation of what those things were touched his regard for his companion with a sober affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovely Lady] Reference
The reader will not find lightness and grace, but strength and manliness, and, in a remarkable degree, affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852] Reference
And so was the affectionateness of woman -- meaning nothing, only an effect of warmth and geniality, nothing beyond that. From Wordnik.com. [The Marriage of Elinor] Reference
And he had that special claim on their attachment, which lies in the living presence of a faithful and loyal affectionateness. From Wordnik.com. [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference
It is kindness, affectionateness, benevolence, sympathy, rejoicing with them that do rejoice, and weeping with them that weep. From Wordnik.com. [Days of Heaven Upon Earth] Reference
Clara fixed on hers, with an affectionateness of interest she could not avoid repaying with a glance of recognition and approval. From Wordnik.com. [Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3] Reference
She uttered it so joylessly that Duchess Susan added, with intense affectionateness, 'You're not obliged to marry him, dear Chloe.'. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
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