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.
Usage examples of "tender-heartedness".
But still it was a yielding from tender-heartedness that I deplore, though without self-reproach.
He who chooses the high, unbeaten tracks should have overcome all tender-heartedness that leads to half measures.
Every man who both thinks and feels will have his alternations of hope and depression, tender-heartedness and stoical contempt.
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 London as soon as you can.