Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apparently an error for tender-hearted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Having great tenderness; easily moved.
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Examples
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He loved the grinding, clashing and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids ....
A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry 1907
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He loved the grinding, clashing, and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids.
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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Hear again with what savage joy his Moon “rips the womb” of the cloud that crosses it; Shelley's Moon, in keeping with the ways of his more tender-hefted universe, merely broke its woof.
Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905
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He loved the grinding, clashing, and rending sibilants and explosives as Tennyson the tender-hefted liquids.
Robert Browning 1892
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My sister's "tender-hefted" nature was horribly disgusted and pained by this process, but my own belief is that had she inherited the propensity to catch fish, even that would not have destroyed it in her.
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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"rips the womb" of the cloud that crosses it; Shelley's Moon, in keeping with the ways of his more tender-hefted universe, merely _broke its woof_.
Robert Browning 1892
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