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

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

  Merely Mary Ann

• “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.

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.”

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

• “Unless very badly born, with disordered amativeness, hereditary from a diseased and lustful parentage, they must be perverted and corrupted before they can act immodestly and impurely.”

  The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources

• “A disciple of Lavater or Gall would have found the bump of amativeness largely developed.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

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