tender-minded

A form of tenderminded — Nurturing, compassionate, and forgiving.

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Meanings

adjectivetender-minded (comparative more tender-minded, superlative most tender-minded)

comparative more tender-minded · superlative most tender-minded

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tenderminded.

    Through [his] love for the deities living in the parish, they become tender-minded and protect him with a thorough-going and suitable protection.

    1980, Harvey B. Aronson, Love and Sympathy in Theravāda Buddhism, →ISBN, page 51
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    The philosophers who had come on the expedition were, as usual, divided into two warring camps: the tender-minded ones who thought philosophy should aim at Significance, and the tough-minded philosophers who thought that it should aim at Truth.

    1979, Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, →ISBN, page 73
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APA

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Chicago

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