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Definition of Tendernesses
1. tenderness [n] - See also: tenderness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tendernesses
Literary usage of Tendernesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1887)
"... even as it does through the delicate tendernesses and gracious pleadings of
this pure pearl of a letter, which the slave, become a brother, ..."
2. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"... life and tendernesses domestic. But what then ? Whence and wherefore is our
severance ? Are seventy odd miles, measured justly along the turnpike-road, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1860)
"And if really he is alive, if it be not an automaton, I say that loving all he
loves nothing, that I care little for his general tendernesses, and that I ..."
4. The Sunday at Home by Religious Tract Society, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1891)
"... station is not exactly the place to which one would go if wanting to be
refreshed with some of the tendernesses of life. There there is hurry and push, ..."
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