tenderhearted

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

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adj

"I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare."
"The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in."

From tender + hearted.

more tenderhearted (comparative) most tenderhearted (superlative)

tenderheartedly tenderheartedness

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