"That's it," said Mrs. Gubbins; "they call it number one, sometimes; I suppose amativeness is Latin for number one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference

How should she know that his indifference was often a victory over himself, as his amativeness was a defeat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merely Mary Ann] Reference

There may be some doubt whether the function called amativeness is located in the cerebellum at all; at least, it is perfectly certain that amativeness is not the exclusive function of the cerebellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plain Facts for Old and Young] Reference

The passion of amativeness is probably, on the whole, the most powerful of all human impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

Because that great motive power (amativeness) that gives the push and go-aheaditiveness is checked, or rather, ceases to act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.] Reference

The amativeness of the dove has lent much to the figurative language of that second golden age, that other Eden where love is over all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

'These little tokens of his amativeness he often bestowed on me; and I permitted him, as I considered such liberties to be comparatively harmless.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

The perceptive organs, the knowing and reasoning faculties, executive ability and the social organs of amativeness and friendship, particularly the latter, are all bright and particularly well developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

It must be amativeness which urges them to go and hear men preach.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Dr. Finney said this showed amativeness, or that the men were back-sliding.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Then the policemen related anecdotes concerning their own and the general amativeness of the Temple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

Secondly, having settled it to be God's will that man should continue his species, we discovered an organ of amativeness, forthwith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference

That part is said by Gall to be the organ of amativeness; and the Polka delirium, in several instances, has terminated in love-madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857] Reference

Stella's skull, the phrenologists claimed, showed characteristics of benevolence, wit and appropriation, but also destructiveness and amativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

Now it happened that while his centre of amativeness was pronounced, it had lain mute and passive during the years he lived on moose and salmon and chased glowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke] Reference

The world shows that while women have more philoprogenitiveness, men have more amativeness; otherwise the latter would not propose and would nurse the doll and baby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

BROTHER DICKINSON: As to the talk of amativeness, what about our holiness meetings and seaside meetings, where we go to hear woman, and to be moved by her words and her personality?.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference

Otherwise it's meet whatever captivating and favourite actresses peppy between undignified state and tasteless amativeness that I hit a hornlike justifying liking an unreasonable amount.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.awesomeblogs.com] Reference

He had spent little of his time with women, and little of his money upon women, and his amativeness had led him into no wilder exploit than the seduction of his laundress's daughter, by whom he had had a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

"If I had more amativeness there would be trouble; I am glad I haven't so much.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

10: 16) its simplicity in (Hosea 7: 11) and its amativeness in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

"Now, I know what you mean," said the doctor; "amativeness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference

241860 adds “phrenology, coins, medals, jurisprudence, amativeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes, 160–169] Reference

“propensities” included amativeness, benevolence, combativeness, veneration, and many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference