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tendersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From tender + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by tenderness
   • Once observing in a tendersome moment / I noted the wind as stealthily He passed; [...] 2011, Elsa De Visser, Shalumba:
   • This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:
   • I'm afraid she's not long for this world; poor dear young lady, she was never used to hard words, and can't bear it, for she was always a tendersome thing like, and now her strength is clean worn out. 1837, Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan:

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