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Tenderhearted

adjective
1.
Easily moved to love.
2.
Easily moved by another's distress.



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"Tenderhearted" Quotes from Famous Books



... right away from her mother, and gin to this brother. Her mother couldn't help herself: he had the law on his side. But it jest killed her. She drooped right away and died, before the baby wus a year old. She was a affectionate, tenderhearted woman; and her husband wus kinder overbearin', and ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... not take to his gun again, although he could see the wild ducks in autumn, flying past his house. There were grouse and quail in the woods, and woodcock were to be found along the brook which ran through Emerson's pasture; but perhaps Hawthorne had become too tenderhearted for field-sports. ...
— The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Frank Preston Stearns
... companionship, the playful caresses, the never-ceasing attentions; the very need of sympathy in her sorrows, that Molly had shown so openly from time to time; all these things had extremely endeared her to the tenderhearted ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Words linked to "Tenderhearted" :   compassionate, loving


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