Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Apparently an error for tender-hearted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Having great tenderness; easily moved.
Examples
“He loved the grinding, clashing and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids ....”
“He loved the grinding, clashing, and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids.”
“Hear again with what savage joy his Moon “rips the womb” of the cloud that crosses it; Shelley's Moon, in keeping with the ways of his more tender-hefted universe, merely broke its woof.”
“My sister's "tender-hefted" nature was horribly disgusted and pained by this process, but my own belief is that had she inherited the propensity to catch fish, even that would not have destroyed it in her.”
“rips the womb" of the cloud that crosses it; Shelley's Moon, in keeping with the ways of his more tender-hefted universe, merely _broke its woof_.”
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King Lear
Some less-than-common words, significant themes, or excellent phrases from my favourite play.
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
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