amativeness

"That's it," said Mrs. Gubbins; "they call it number one, sometimes; I suppose amativeness is Latin for number one.

Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

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.

Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

How should she know that his indifference was often a victory over himself, as his amativeness was a defeat?

The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

How should she know that his indifference was often a victory over himself, as his amativeness was a defeat?

Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill 1895

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.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

They were those of a woman endowed with an abundance of health and energy, eyes that were full of what the old character readers used to call "amativeness," denoting a nature capable of intense passion, whether of love or hate.

Gold of the Gods 1908

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

Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

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

THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

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.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He had enough of amativeness to give him a proper appreciation of women and the delights of sociability, but his love manifested itself more through the intellect than the passions, and his social nature was of that diffusive character which manifests itself in the formation of popular attachment rather than exclusive friendships.

How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor