Word Finder - tenderness

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A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings

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When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.

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Concern for the feelings or welfare of others

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When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.

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Pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched

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He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.

In fact, they held a tenderness she had never seen.

There was a tenderness in the way she looked at him that amazed him.

The tenderness on Jackson's face, confirmed his love for her daughter.

She gazed up into eyes that were full of tenderness.

After making love to her with such tenderness and passion.

Nor had he ever looked at her that way – with such tenderness.

He studied her features and touched her face with tenderness.

He gazed into her eyes for a long moment, the tenderness she recognized from their night together present.

Husn u 'A s4 (Beauty and Love), as his great poem is called, is an allegorical romance full of tenderness and imaginative power.

The native cattle, also diminutive in size, with small horns and short legs, furnish beef of remarkable tenderness and flavour; while the cows, when well fed, yield a plentiful supply of rich milk.

The individual becomes faint, and the faintness keeps on increasing; and there are pain and tenderness in the liver-region.

The author's extraordinary power, learning and originality were acknowledged on all hands, though he excited censure and suspicion by his tenderness to the alleged heresies of Conyers Middleton.

In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness.

The society spread in the eastern counties, in spite of repressive measures; it revived under the Commonwealth, and lingered into the early years of the 18th century; the leading idea of its "service of love" was a reliance on sympathy and tenderness for the moral and spiritual edification of its members.

Her mother, Elizabeth, co-heiress of Aske in Yorkshire, was the earliest of that little band of women-friends whose correspondence with Knox on religious matters throws an unexpected light on his discriminating tenderness of heart.

Parental tenderness and care for the young are strongly marked among the lower animals, though so inferior in scope and duration to the human qualities; and the same may be said of the mutual forbearance and defence which bind together in a rudimentary social bond the families and herds of animals.

All the poet and all the man spoke out and stood evident in the perfervid patriotism, the filial devotion, the fatherly tenderness, the indignation and the pity, which here find alternate expression in passionate and familiar and majestic song.

Her ambition was centred in her sons, but Bismarck in his recollections of his childhood missed the influences of maternal tenderness.

Nor had he ever looked at her that way – with such tenderness.

The way he touched, teased and made love to her showed her his capacity for depth of emotion and the type of tenderness she didn't expect from a vampire.

Recently, my menstrual flow has changed and I am experiencing abdominal bloating and occasional tenderness.

Where it includes temporal arteritis the symptoms may include unilateral headache and tenderness of the temple.

On the third day I started to notice tenderness around the rear left side of the jaw bone.

Clinical Findings - localized tenderness over the inflamed bursa.

Lateral pain, worse on lying on that side, with tenderness over the greater trochanter suggests secondary trochanteric bursitis.

On examination, there is tenderness about the scapholunate interval, which lies just distal to the Lister tubercle.

These include erythema, swelling, pain, itching, discoloration or tenderness at the implant site.

Similarly the power given in creation to humans is to be exercised with tenderness, not ruthless exploitation.

A few also have localized tenderness over the deltoid ligament; these tend to have more complex injuries.

Tenderness is usually maximal over the lateral ligament, often the ATFL only.

And the creator's providence over his creatures may be likened to the human father's care and tenderness toward his children.

Clinical examination revealed localized tenderness and diffuse swelling over the site of the right pubic ramus.

Some patients have rather generalized joint line tenderness, palpable synovitis or an effusion.

Tenderness and swelling over and around the inflamed tendon are the obvious signs that a doctor will look for.

I felt as before that I loved God, that my mind embraced and accepted that ideal of justice, tenderness and holiness which I had never doubted, but with which I had never held direct communion, and now at last I felt that this communion was consummated, as though an invincible barrier had been broken down between the source of infinite light and the smouldering fire of my heart.

The consequence was a nervous illness with some of the symptoms of delirium tremens, through which George Sand nursed him with tenderness and care.

The pathos of natural affection is occasionally recognized in Statius and more rarely in Martial,' but it has not the depth of tenderness found in Lucretius and Virgil.

He was "an excellent maker of songs," and his hymns are characterized by a lyrical tenderness which seems typically Franciscan.

The Psalter is that part of the Old Testament in which the devotional aspect of the religious character finds its completest expression; and in lyrics of exquisite tenderness and beauty the most varied emotions are poured forth by the psalmists to their God - despondency and distress, penitence and resignation, hope and confidence, jubilation and thankfulness, adoration and praise.

The simplicity and tenderness speciallycharacteristic of du Bellay appear in the sonnets telling of his unlucky passion for Faustine, and of his nostalgia for the banks of the Loire.

The varied sources of his work and its worthlessness as a transcript of actual Celtic poems do not alter the fact that he produced a work of art which by its deep appreciation of natural beauty and the melancholy tenderness of its treatment of the ancient legend did more than any single work to bring about the romantic movement in European, and especially in German, literature.

But this was mitigated by a strong sense of humour (not always sarcastic, though sometimes savagely so), and by tenderness, best seen in his epistolary friendships with women; and it was quite overborne by an instinct and passion for great practical affairs.

A man in intellect and courage, yet without conceit or bravado; a woman in sensibility and tenderness, yet without shrinking or weakness; a saint in purity of life and devotion of heart, yet without asceticism or religiosity; a knight-errant in hatred of wrong and contempt of baseness, yet without self-righteousness or cynicism; a prince in dignity and courtesy, yet without formality or condescension; a poet in thought and feeling, yet without jealousy or affectation; a scholar in tastes and habits, yet without aloofness or bookishness; a dutiful son, a loving husband, a judicious father, a trusty friend, a useful citizen and an enthusiastic patriot, - he united in his strong, transparent humanity almost every virtue under heaven.

Of the six parts into which it is divided, the first translates into manysided music the joys and sorrows, the thoughts and fancies, the studies and ardours and speculations of youth; the second, as full of light and colour, grows gradually deeper in tone of thought and music; the third is yet riper and more various in form of melody and in fervour of meditation; the fourth is the noblest of all tributes ever paid by song to sorrow - a series of poems consecrated to the memory of the poet's eldest daughter, who was drowned, together with her husband, by the upsetting of a boat off the coast of Normandy, a few months after their wedding-day, in 1843; the fifth and the sixth books, written during his first four years of exile (all but one noble poem which bears date nine years earlier than its epilogue or postscript), contain more than a few poems unsurpassed and unsurpassable for depth and clarity and trenchancy of thought, for sublimity of inspiration, for intensity of faith, for loyalty in translation from nature, and for tenderness in devotion to truth; crowned and glorified and completed by their matchless dedication to the dead.

There was a look of tenderness, for he was touched, but also a gleam of irony on his face.

With her he behaved with special care and tenderness, sitting beside her and talking of the simplest and most unimportant matters; he admired her shy grace.

Now you know, Count," she said to Pierre, "even our dear cousin Boris, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness..."

She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.

And with the decision and tenderness that often come at the moment of awakening, she embraced her friend, but noticing Sonya's look of embarrassment, her own face expressed confusion and suspicion.

She began to cry and a still greater sense of pity, tenderness, and love welled up in Pierre.