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Definition of Tenderest
1. tender [adj] - See also: tender
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenderest
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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