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Tenderness

noun

A tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.

A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched). Synonyms: rawness, soreness. "After taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"

Warm compassionate feelings. Synonym: tenderheartedness.

A positive feeling of liking. Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness. "The child won everyone's heart" , "The warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"

A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless). Synonym: softheartedness.

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"Tenderness" Quotes from Famous Books

... essence is the quality of mercy? It is something beyond the mere desire not to push an advantage too far. It is a feeling of tenderness springing out of harsh experience, as a flower springs out of a rock. It is an inner sense of gratitude for the scheme of things, finding expression in outward action, and, therefore, assuring its ...

— Success (Second Edition) • Max Aitken Beaverbrook

... the age, and had striven to justify the theology of the day by rational arguments. He was as righteous as he was learned, and as gentle as he was righteous. Tender to man and woman, he had what was in those days a rare tenderness to animals, and had caused astonishment by saving a hunted hare from its pursuers. In 1092 the king's vassals assembled in the Great Council urged William to choose a successor to Lanfranc, and asked him ...

— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner

... of tenderness! Maggie never forgot any of these moments when her father "took her part"; she kept them in her heart, and thought of them long years after, when every one else said that her father had done very ...

— The Ontario Readers - Third Book • Ontario Ministry of Education

... drag, Forlorn and friendless, along Life's long path To Age's drear abode; he shall not waste The bitter evening of his days unsooth'd; But HOPE shall cheer his hours of Solitude, And VICE shall vainly strive to wound his breast, That bears that talisman; and when he meets The eloquent eye of TENDERNESS, and hears The bosom-thrilling music of her voice; The joy he feels shall purify his Soul, And ...

— Poems, 1799 • Robert Southey

... official death. How Ned Trent entered the territory, took la longue traverse, and the journey down the river of life with the factor's only daughter is admirably told. It is a warm, vivid, and dramatic story, and depicts the tenderness and mystery of ...

— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow

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