Crossword clues for tender-hearted
tender-hearted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tender-hearted \Ten"der-heart`ed\, a. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.
Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not
withstand them.
--2 Chron.
xiii. 7.
Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted.
--Eph. iv.
32.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of tenderhearted English)
Usage examples of "tender-hearted".
Caravan grew quite tender-hearted when he mentioned her great age, and more than once asked Doctor Chenet, emphasizing the word doctor--although he was not fully qualified, being only an Offcier de Sante--whether he had often met anyone as old as that.
Louis felt none of the tender-hearted scruples of the brave old soldier.
I am afeared too the poor lady will be brought to break her heart, for she is as tender-hearted as a chicken.
When Babson got through charging a jury the latter had always in fact been instructed in brutal and sneering tones to convict the defendant or forever after to regard themselves as disloyal citizens, oath violators and outcasts though the stenographic record of his remarks would have led the reader thereof to suppose that this same judge was a conscientious, tender-hearted merciful lover of humanity, whose sensitive soul quivered at the mere thought of a prison cell, and who meticulously sought to surround the defendant with every protection the law could interpose against the imputation of guilt.
A more tender-hearted man, possessing his vision and his knowledge, might have found cause for tears in the contemplation of these ardent, simple, Nonconformist sheep going forth to the shambles - escorted to the rallying ground on Castle Field by wives and daughters, sweethearts and mothers, sustained by the delusion that they were to take the field in defence of Right, of Liberty, and of Religion.
Massachusetts and South Carolina may draw tears from the eyes of our tender-hearted President by walking arm in arm into his Philadelphia Convention, but a citizen of Massachusetts is still an alien in the Palmetto State.
Burros were not indigenous to the region and their habits of denuding the landscape of plant life by devouring foliage to the root line and fouling water holes were driving such native animals as bighorn sheep to the edge of extinction-a tragedy which the tender-hearted animal lovers of America did not seem to understand.
But for tender-hearted Avarice the vacancies are too few, and so he brings his foresight to bear upon the benefices which are still occupied by their incumbents, so that they must be unfilled, even they are not unfilled.