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amiable
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Emma, by Jane Austen
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The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time.†
Chpt 1.1-2

amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
He had never been an unhappy man; his own temper had secured him from that, even in his first marriage; but his second must shew him how delightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give him the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.†
Chpt 1.1-2
Her early attachment to herself was very amiable; and her inclination for good company, and power of appreciating what was elegant and clever, shewed that there was no want of taste, though strength of understanding must not be expected.†
Chpt 1.3-4
I never met with a disposition more truly amiable.†
Chpt 1.5-6
However, I do really think Mr. Martin a very amiable young man, and have a great opinion of him; and his being so much attached to me—and his writing such a letter—but as to leaving you, it is what I would not do upon any consideration.†
Chpt 1.7-8
She was rather low all the evening, but Emma could allow for her amiable regrets, and sometimes relieved them by speaking of her own affection, sometimes by bringing forward the idea of Mr. Elton.†
Chpt 1.7-8
If they are anxious to see you happily married, here is a man whose amiable character gives every assurance of it;—if they wish to have you settled in the same country and circle which they have chosen to place you in, here it will be accomplished; and if their only object is that you should, in the common phrase, be well married, here is the comfortable fortune, the respectable establishment, the rise in the world which must satisfy them.†
Chpt 1.9-10
Mrs. John Knightley was a pretty, elegant little woman, of gentle, quiet manners, and a disposition remarkably amiable and affectionate; wrapt up in her family; a devoted wife, a doating mother, and so tenderly attached to her father and sister that, but for these higher ties, a warmer love might have seemed impossible.†
Chpt 1.11-12
I have no doubt of his being a most amiable young man.†
Chpt 1.11-12
That sweet, amiable Jane Fairfax!
Chpt 1.11-12 *
—But there is, I believe, in many men, especially single men, such an inclination—such a passion for dining out—a dinner engagement is so high in the class of their pleasures, their employments, their dignities, almost their duties, that any thing gives way to it—and this must be the case with Mr. Elton; a most valuable, amiable, pleasing young man undoubtedly, and very much in love with Harriet; but still, he cannot refuse an invitation, he must dine out wherever he is asked.†
Chpt 1.13-14
He professed himself extremely anxious about her fair friend—her fair, lovely, amiable friend.†
Chpt 1.15-16
It was a great consolation that Mr. Elton should not be really in love with her, or so particularly amiable as to make it shocking to disappoint him—that Harriet's nature should not be of that superior sort in which the feelings are most acute and retentive—and that there could be no necessity for any body's knowing what had passed except the three principals, and especially for her father's being given a moment's uneasiness about it.†
Chpt 1.15-16
These days of confinement would have been, but for her private perplexities, remarkably comfortable, as such seclusion exactly suited her brother, whose feelings must always be of great importance to his companions; and he had, besides, so thoroughly cleared off his ill-humour at Randalls, that his amiableness never failed him during the rest of his stay at Hartfield.†
Chpt 1.15-16

amiableness = friendliness and agreeableness
Emma was in the humour to value simplicity and modesty to the utmost; and all that was amiable, all that ought to be attaching, seemed on Harriet's side, not her own.†
Chpt 1.17-18

amiable = friendly, agreeable, and likable
I wish you would try to understand what an amiable young man may be likely to feel in directly opposing those, whom as child and boy he has been looking up to all his life.†
Chpt 1.17-18
Our amiable young man is a very weak young man, if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolution to do right against the will of others.†
Chpt 1.17-18
No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English.†
Chpt 1.17-18
No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English.†
Chpt 1.17-18
He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.†
Chpt 1.17-18
He is a most amiable, charming young man, I believe.†
Chpt 2.1-2
Miss Campbell always was absolutely plain—but extremely elegant and amiable.†
Chpt 2.1-2
A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable: and when Mr. Elton himself arrived to triumph in his happy prospects, and circulate the fame of her merits, there was very little more for him to do, than to tell her Christian name, and say whose music she principally played.†
Chpt 2.3-4
That he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before, passed suspiciously through Emma's brain; but still, if it were a falsehood, it was a pleasant one, and pleasantly handled.†
Chpt 2.5-6
Some of the objects of his curiosity spoke very amiable feelings.†
Chpt 2.5-6
But Emma, in her own mind, determined that he did know what he was talking about, and that he shewed a very amiable inclination to settle early in life, and to marry, from worthy motives.†
Chpt 2.5-6
—This amiable, upright, perfect Jane Fairfax was apparently cherishing very reprehensible feelings.†
Chpt 2.9-10
Had she intended ever to marry him, it might have been worth while to pause and consider, and try to understand the value of his preference, and the character of his temper; but for all the purposes of their acquaintance, he was quite amiable enough.†
Chpt 2.11-12
She was quite one of her worthies—the most amiable, affable, delightful woman—just as accomplished and condescending as Mrs. Elton meant to be considered.†
Chpt 2.15-16
the amiable, obliging, gentle Mr. Elton.†
Chpt 3.1-2
There was too much domestic happiness in his brother's house; woman wore too amiable a form in it; Isabella was too much like Emma—differing only in those striking inferiorities, which always brought the other in brilliancy before him, for much to have been done, even had his time been longer.†
Chpt 3.13-14
— Amiable and delightful as Miss Woodhouse is, she never gave me the idea of a young woman likely to be attached; and that she was perfectly free from any tendency to being attached to me, was as much my conviction as my wish.†
Chpt 3.13-14
Think she must of the possible difference to the poor little boy; and yet she only gave herself a saucy conscious smile about it, and found amusement in detecting the real cause of that violent dislike of Mr. Knightley's marrying Jane Fairfax, or any body else, which at the time she had wholly imputed to the amiable solicitude of the sister and the aunt.†
Chpt 3.15-16
What an amiable creature I was!†
Chpt 3.17-18
I remember once calling you 'George,' in one of my amiable fits, about ten years ago.†
Chpt 3.17-18
Sometimes, indeed, I have thought you were half suspecting me of pleading poor Martin's cause, which was never the case; but, from all my observations, I am convinced of her being an artless, amiable girl, with very good notions, very seriously good principles, and placing her happiness in the affections and utility of domestic life.†
Chpt 3.17-18

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(1) (amiable)
friendly, agreeable, and likable
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