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Definition of Tenderheartedness
1. Noun. Warm compassionate feelings.
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
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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