The Only Use of
affable
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- It was a much greater surprise to Scrooge to recognise it as his own nephew's and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew with approving affability!†
p. 80.9affability = the quality or degree of being good natured and sociable
Definition:
good natured and sociable