sociableness

So they looked, and Mercy wondered; but Christiana said, What a disparagement is it to such a little pretty bird as the Robin-red-breast is, he being also a bird above many that loveth to maintain a kind of sociableness with man; I had thought they had lived upon crums of bread, or upon other such harmless matter.

The Pilgrim’s Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 100-199 1909

He being also a bird above many, that loveth to maintain a kind of sociableness with men.

Rural Hours 1887

And the same may be said of their dispositions, for the wild, and unsociable, and the passionate occur in such a constitution; for frequent excitement of the mind induces wildness, and extinguishes sociableness and mildness of disposition, and therefore I think the inhabitants of

On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

Mr. Lane does not confound society with sociableness.

Uncollected Prose 2006

Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place.

From London to Land's End 2003

Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place.

From London to Land's End 2003

Here is a great deal of good company, and abundance of gentry being in the neighbourhood, it adds to the sociableness of the place.

From London to Land's End 2003

The impetus to development Kant found in the restlessness arising from the conflict in man between his social and antisocial tendencies, in what he calls the unsocial sociableness of man, his desire for gain and power, his greed and competitiveness.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968

But the kindly sociableness of these Dutch prevented any decidedly vicious tendency among them, and went far toward making amends for any real or supposed laxity in religious principles.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

But he that honours a reasonable soul in general, as it is reasonable and naturally sociable, doth little regard anything else: and above all things is careful to preserve his own, in the continual habit and exercise both of reason and sociableness: and thereby doth co-operate with him, of whose nature he doth also participate; God.

Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius