Definition of Tenderest

1. Adjective. (superlative of tender) ¹

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Definition of Tenderest

1. tender [adj] - See also: tender

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenderest

tendentiously
tendentiousness
tendentiousnesses
tendenz
tendenzen
tender
tender-hearted
tender lines
tender loving care
tender offer
tender points
tender zones
tendered
tenderer
tenderers
tenderest
tenderfeet
tenderfoot
tenderfoots
tendergreen
tenderhearted
tenderheartedly
tenderheartedness
tenderheartednesses
tendering
tenderisation
tenderise
tenderised
tenderiser
tenderisers

Literary usage of Tenderest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The work is suffused with tints of quintessential delicacy; we meet there only the softest murmurs, the tenderest emotions, the most fainting languors. ..."

2. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"to me in a dream, and begged me with tears of tenderest affection, for God's love and his, to enter upon this engagement. ..."

3. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"The letter so overflowed with expressions of the tenderest fatherly affection, that I was moved to tears of filial piety, resolving, before he died, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The same letters which convey those hideous instructions, convey also the best of advice, the evidence of the tenderest anxiety. ..."

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