tendersome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"I'm afraid she's not long for this world; poor dear young lady, she was never used to hard words, and can't bear it, for she was always a tendersome thing like, and now her strength is clean worn out."
"This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out."
"Once observing in a tendersome moment / I noted the wind as stealthily He passed; [...]"

From tender + -some.

more tendersome (comparative) most tendersome (superlative)

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