tenderness

• “Iago devotes himself to wronged Othello, and says, _Let him command whatever bloody business_, and in me it shall be an act, not of cruelty, but _of tenderness, to obey him_; not of malice to other, but of _tenderness_ for him.”

  Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies

• “I very well understand what you call tenderness, madam; but in some situations, pity -- pity -- is the greatest insult.”

  The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays

• “I never, my dear girl, knew happiness till now; my tenderness is absolutely a species of idolatry; you cannot think what a slave this lovely girl has made me.”

  The History of Emily Montague

• “Tess and her mother, the Ungers, and other friends heard him speak to the college graduates about the word tenderness as it is enacted in Chekhov’s novella Ward No. 6.”

  Simon & Schuster: Raymond Carver

• “But I feel a certain tenderness towards all of the characters, perhaps especially the most flawed ones.”

  A Conversation with Geraldine Brooks about People of the Book

• “What such cuts lack in tenderness they tend to make up for with a stronger, beefier flavour.”

  Independence and chicken-fried steak | Homesick Texan

• “MRS. TRICKWELL: How full of tenderness is all Sir John says. — [aside] I shall deserve the five hundred pounds, Sir”

  The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother

• “A word of tenderness, even a parting caress when she was getting on the train, would have held her back.”

  Simon & Schuster: Gone with the Wind

• “The men who have most intimately touched my life have not known the meaning of the word tenderness, and have never had a thought for any one beyond themselves.”

  The Sheik

• “I am obliged to bear it, since no choice is left me, – I might have answered; but in tenderness for their feelings I only replied –”

  Agnes Grey

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