endearing

[…] I dare not call him father, nor he, without shame, own me as his issue, I being illegitimate, and therefore deprived of that endearing tenderness and unparalleled satisfaction which a good man fin

BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, / Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, / Like fairy-gifts fading away,— / Thou wouldst stil be ador'd

But the humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

It was arms around, and perpetual endearings, and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.

Despite her hard exterior, she had a certain vulnerability that made her quite endearing.

His lack of self-awareness was sublime. That could be either endearing or maddening.