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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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... engraving and painting of the hieroglyphics were resumed with success, and carried out with a minuteness and accuracy that provokes the admiration of the beholder. Bas-reliefs of extreme beauty and elaboration characterize the period. There rests upon some of them "a gentle and almost feminine tenderness, which has impressed upon the imitations of living creatures the stamp of an incredible delicacy both of conception and execution." Statues and statuettes of merit were at the same time produced in abundance. The ...

— Ancient Egypt • George Rawlinson

... smote him. And he felt that he had shown more tenderness for this lady than the occasion called for, or than his duty warranted. He had called her "dear;" he had kissed her hand; he had asked her if she loved him! And this in the face of all his late protestations ...

— Cruel As The Grave • Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... former times at Casgar, on the extreme boundaries of Tartary, a tailor who had a pretty wife, whom he affectionately loved, and by whom he was beloved with reciprocal tenderness. One day while he was at work, a little hunch-back seated himself at the shop door and began to sing, and play upon a tabor. The tailor was pleased with his performance, and resolved to take him to his house to entertain his wife: "This little fellow," ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments vol. 2 • Anon.

... with the added reverence of a disciple for his Teacher.—You shall find these intense feelings sometimes in children of his stamp; though truly children of the stamp of Tiberius are rare enough; for with all his tenderness, his over-sensitiveness and timidity, put him to some task, whisper to him Duty!—and the little Tiberius is another child altogether: unflinching, silent, determined, pertinacious, ready to die rather than give in before the thing is most ...

— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris

... him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support. But Caroline Beaufort possessed a mind of an uncommon mould, and her courage rose to support her in her adversity. She procured plain work; ...

— Frankenstein - or The Modern Prometheus • Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

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