nearness

IPA: nˈɪrnʌs

Examples of "nearness" in Sentences

But that nearness is better than farness I know: 122
Other times, it brings hurt, because that nearness is not near enough.
He was like a child coming back to the sense of an enveloping presence: her nearness was a breast on which he leaned.
With that animal instinct of nearness, which is neither sight, nor smell, my favorite broncho put forward his ears and whinnied sharply.
(Jer 3: 1, 3; Eze 23: 35), is contrasted with his, who finds happiness in nearness to God (Jas 4: 8), and his delightful work the declaration of
On the other hand, I feel so clearly a certain nearness, spiritually and psychologically, to Henry Stuartwell, I guess there is even an emotional counterpart, too.
The self-discipline that had kept her upright and functioning deserted her, as though his nearness was a drug so potent it robbed her bones of stuffing and reduced her to limp surrender.
It is, in short, nearness to God -- the blessed assurance which God Himself can alone give that He is there, whatever our cold doubts may say -- that the everlasting arms are around us, even when we do not feel their quiet and strong embrace.