TENDER, TENDER-HEARTED, TENDERLY, TENDERNESS
ADJECTIVES
..897 — NESH tender, mild, gentle, kind; inclined to pity, mercy, or other tender feelings → obs.
1000 — TART of pain, punishment, suffering, discipline, law: sharp, severe, painful, grievous, tender to the touch, smarting, stinging → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1440 — LUSH lax, flaccid; soft, tender → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1441 — AFFECTUOUS favourably or kindly disposed; loving, affectionate, tender → obs.
1594 — EFFEMINATE gentle, tender, compassionate → obs.
1651 — TENELLOUS somewhat tender → obs.
1790 — MURE-HEARTED tender-hearted; meek-spirited
..19C — MILCH-HEARTED nervous, timid, mild, tender-hearted → Eng. dial.
1854 — NESHY fragile, tender → Eng. dial.
1888 — FEELING-HEARTED tender-hearted, kind-hearted → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1905 — MISWONTED tender → Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
1905 — NARK delicate, tender → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TAFFETY tender, delicate → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TEW tender, sickly, small, weak → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TID — TIDD tender; nice, fanciful → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1952 — BUTTER-HEARTED tender-hearted → Amer. dial.
ADVERBS
1297 — NESH softly, gently, tenderly → obs.
1447 — AFFECTUOUSLY affectionately; kindly, lovingly, tenderly → obs.
1904 — SAWFLY carefully, tenderly → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1440 — TENERITUDE tenderness, softness → obs.
1656 — MOLLITUDE softness, tenderness, weakness, effeminacy → obs.
1824 — TETUZ anything tender; a delicate person → Sc. obs.
1905 — NESHNESS delicacy, tenderness → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
1549 — NICELING an effeminate, tender, or delicate person → obs.
1553 — GRISSELL — GRISTLE a tender or delicate person → obs.
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