Definition of Tenderheartedness

1. Noun. Warm compassionate feelings.

Exact synonyms: Tenderness
Generic synonyms: Compassion, Compassionateness
Derivative terms: Tenderhearted, Tenderhearted, Tender

Definition of Tenderheartedness

1. Noun. The characteristic of being tenderhearted. ¹

2. Noun. The result or product of being tenderhearted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenderheartedness

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
tenderises
tenderising
tenderization
tenderizations
tenderize
tenderized
tenderizer

Literary usage of Tenderheartedness

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

1. The Four Witnesses by Isaäc da Costa, David Dundas Scott (1855)
"... with all that is weak, and poor, and despised.1 Is there not an admirable fitness and consistency in the Gospel of tenderheartedness and compassion, ..."

2. The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck (1901)
"You can exercise your intelligence but not your tenderheartedness. The more you use your intelligence the more it develops, ..."

3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"For in religious writings I remember no instance of the word tenderheartedness being used in a bad sense. And common usage affords examples of similar ..."

4. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon (1896)
"These instincts, however—as is regularly the case in crowds—will not prevent the manifestation of other and contrary sentiments, such as a tenderheartedness ..."

5. An Autobiography by Herbert Spencer (1904)
"But as in the word tenderheartedness there occurs the fragment " hearted ;" and as in such instances as " wrongheadedness " the word " headed," included as ..."

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