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tender-mindedly en · ADV

Etymology

From tender-minded + -ly.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of tendermindedly.
   alt of tendermindedly
   • We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance. 2008, Clark Butler, Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach, →ISBN, pages 10–11:
   • They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […] 1958, Crane Brinton, A History of Civilization, volume 2, page 335:
   • William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature." 1933, Scribner's Magazine, volume 93, page 391:

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