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tender-heartedness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being tender-hearted; a tender or compassionate disposition; susceptibility of the softer passions.

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Examples

  • I'd sighed and bit my lip and my Shireen—a dreamer, but not a soft one—had laughed and clapped at my tender-heartedness.

    Special!! Online Story from the Clockwork Phoenix 2 Anthology, edited by Mike Allen: Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed Liviu 2009

  • She was too essentially feminine; too much of the tender-heartedness of womankind was in her makeup.

    "Thia of the Drylands" by Harl Vincent, part 5 Johnny Pez 2009

  • She was too essentially feminine; too much of the tender-heartedness of womankind was in her makeup.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • All that was hurt was pride; and perhaps a little tender-heartedness and sentimental sniffling, go on I'll admit to it!

    Archive 2007-01-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • All that was hurt was pride; and perhaps a little tender-heartedness and sentimental sniffling, go on I'll admit to it!

    Speak or be Damned Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • Colossians 3:12-15 WNT Clothe yourselves therefore, as Gods own people holy and dearly loved, with tender-heartedness, kindness, lowliness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; bearing with one another and readily forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another.

    Scriptures at Your Fingertips Merry Graham Rachel Bye 2005

  • Then his tender-heartedness forbade him to kill them.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • He had also discovered in himself an unsuspected tender-heartedness.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • Leave Frederica, therefore, to punish herself for the plague she has given you, by indulging that romantic tender-heartedness which will always ensure her misery enough, and come to

    Lady Susan 2002

  • Dumas, though fierce on the field of battle, was very gentle away from it, so much so that his tender-heartedness proved more than once embarrassing to him and on one occasion came near costing him his life.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

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