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tender-minded en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of tenderminded.
    • Through [his] love for the deities living in the parish, they become tender-minded and protect him with a thorough-going and suitable protection. 1980, Harvey B. Aronson, Love and Sympathy in Theravāda Buddhism, →ISBN, page 51:
    • The philosophers who had come on the expedition were, as usual, divided into two warring camps: the tender-minded ones who thought philosophy should aim at Significance, and the tough-minded philosophers who thought that it should aim at Truth. 1979, Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, →ISBN, page 73:

Forms

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most tender-minded Degree=Sup lexicographic
more tender-minded Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

tender-mindedly · tender-mindedness