Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being soft-hearted; tendency or disposition to be touched, or moved to sympathy; tenderness of heart; benevolence; gentleness.
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Examples
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She also betrays a trace of her dad's soft-heartedness; recently, she left one of the freezers open, which happened to contain her beloved pet canary, Missy.
Polly Morgan's wings of desire Miranda Collinge 2010
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And it isn2t soft-heartedness on his part, some bygones-be-bygones kind of gibberish.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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First, we'll look at the trivial case a villain who actually benefited from a hero's soft-heartedness several different times, according to my sources.
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Note: I am told that Spidey finally in a story I don't think I ever saw overcame this extreme soft-heartedness toward the Black Fox, and handed the guy over to the authorities after catching him red-handed.
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We're talking about self-idealized rugged individualism that can't stand bleeding-heart liberalism (soft-heartedness; weakness) and masks that loathing behind a criticism of a conveniently defined notion of coercion.
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It seems that it was a procedural cock-up that caused the judge to rule that the slaughter order was unlawful, not any judicial soft-heartedness.
Shambo reprieved 2007
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If all of this talk about the H-P family suggests soft-heartedness, one needs only to bring up financial matters and the tough guy CEO reappears.
The Un-Carly 2007
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With all his soft-heartedness and good-nature, Savka despised women.
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He was notorious for his soft-heartedness, and all the beggars in Kyauktada made him their target.
Burmese Days 2002
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So most of the differences that I remember were concerning that: his soft-heartedness, the ease with which he could be … some-times taken in, I would say.
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