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Answer for the clue "With affection ", 8 letters:
tenderly
Alternative clues for the word tenderly
- With gentle care
- Rosemary Clooney hit
- Present lady, without publicity, in kind manner
- Sensitively keep ahead of time, leaving area
- 1950s million-selling song that begins "The evening breeze caressed the trees ..."
- In loving way, making proposal, with lady taking no notice
- With compassion
- Gently, sympathetically
Word definitions for tenderly in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tenderly \Ten"der*ly\, adv. In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. --Chaucer.
Usage examples of tenderly.
I loved her tenderly, I adored her, but at that moment it was not her whom I wanted, because at first her presence had struck me as a mystification.
Julia relaxed slowly as Azar dabbed the perspiration from her forehead and murmured to her, touching her face tenderly.
Against the bullying and bedevilled tike, we can set the adolescent dreamer, the boy who tenderly nursed his apocalyptic hopes.
I paid her a visit, and she began by reproaching me tenderly for not coming to see her more often.
His master began a pathetic oration, looking tenderly at the animal, as if to arouse it to a sense of duty, and then taking its head, and kissing it lovingly, he put it into the manger, but to no purpose.
She had got up without waking me, but as soon as she heard me stirring she came, and I tenderly chid her for not waiting for me to give her good morrow.
So pathetically and tenderly did I pronounce these words that the hall rang again with the applause, and the encores from four hundred throats made me repeat the words which, indeed, came from my heart.
He came up to her as soon as he saw her, and going on one knee in the Portuguese fashion, kissed her hand tenderly and respectfully.
Once or twice she addressed his aunt and sister in such a gracious manner that they could not help leaving their places and kissing her tenderly, congratulating Charles upon his good fortune.
I had ardently desired in my arms, while she tenderly caressed me, and yet I could do nothing for her.
Now he was cupping her breast in his hand, now he was sliding his hand slowly up and around her neck, raking his fingers tenderly through her hair.
They had talked very little in the train though Dowie had been tenderly careful and kind.
I found myself alone with Esther I kissed her tenderly, saying that I should not be happy till I had won her heart.
I thanked her tenderly for the proof she had given me of her attachment, and said that I had been arrested by a plot for which I would make the plotters pay dear.
Her husband was a fine, well-made man, who loved her tenderly, and had never slept apart from her.