tendersome

comparative more tendersome · superlative most tendersome

1. Characterised or marked by tenderness

   Once observing in a tendersome moment / I noted the wind as stealthily He passed; [...]

   2011, Elsa De Visser, Shalumba

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   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.

   1837, Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan

   This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out.

   2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN