intenerate

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Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in and keeps her balance true.

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  1. transitive verb To make tender; soften.

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  • Thus she contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in and keeps her balance true. —  Essays — First Series
  • I know not whether I do not too much indulge the vain longings of affection; but I hope they intenerate my heart, and that when I die like my Tetty, this affection will be acknowledged in a happy interview, and that in the mean time I am incited by it to piety. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765
  • Thus she contrives to intenerate [100] the granite and felspar, takes the boar out and puts the lamb in, and keeps her balance true. —  Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

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  1. in-2 + Latin tener, tender; see tender1 + -ate1.

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  1. from Middle Latin *inteneratus, past participle of *intenerare (later Italian intenerare), make tender, from Latin in, in, + tener, tender: see tender.
  2. from Middle Latin *inteneratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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