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soft-heartedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From soft-hearted + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of softheartedness.
    • For his soft-heartedness, his forgiving and undemanding nature, the governor was called by the diminutive "Inzushko. 1999, Юрий Дружников, Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of Nationalism, →ISBN, page 79:
    • Her mother did not interfere with her; but her father used to be very indignant with his daughter, for her – as he called it – vulgar soft-heartedness, and declared there was not room to move for the cats and dogs in the house. 2006, Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve, →ISBN, page 38: