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Definition of Softheartedness
1. Noun. A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless).
Definition of Softheartedness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being softhearted; sentimental tenderness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Softheartedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Softheartedness
Literary usage of Softheartedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey (1844)
"... and a sort of softheartedness towards the sufferings of individuals, which
seems hitherto to have been thought incompatible with the stern dignity of ..."
2. Bhagavad-Gita as It is: With the Original Sanskrit Text, Roman ...by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1989)
"See: Simplicity of softheartedness, 1.45,1.46 of spiritual knowledge, cultivation
of, 16.1,16.1 (6) of steadfastness, Krsna represented by, ..."
3. German Literature by Wolfgang Menzel (1840)
"But he was almost exclusively governed by his feelings and imagination, and he
possessed a sanguine temperament; a kind of softheartedness which he could ..."
4. The War by William Howard Russell (1856)
"sioners, principally, it is to be supposed, on. account of the notorious sobriety
of the class, and because of their presumed softheartedness and tenderness ..."
5. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"HEINRICH HEINE Parsimony, softheartedness, and naivete are vices in a man, but
virtues in a woman. A TT Hasdai was a thirteenth-century Hebrew translator. ..."
6. Life of the Right Hon. Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall: P.C., K.C.B., G.C.I.E., D.C.L by Henry Mortimer Durand (1913)
"... railway carriage and travelled some little way with him,—" a rough-looking
irritable man with ten times the softheartedness and sensibility of myself. ..."
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