tender-conscienced

Nothing of this is found in the Italian, -- and history fails of her dues at the hands of this tender-conscienced modernizer of Benvenuto.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

With dark artfulness she rouses in Elsa more than proportionate compassion for her plight, by casting upon the tender-conscienced creature the whole blame for it.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

All indulgences animate such persons, but mend them not; all reconcilements, and little puny arts of accommodation, are but as spiders 'webs, which such hornets will quickly break through, and as truces to an old enemy to rally up his forces, and to fall on, when he sees his advantage: nothing will hold a sanctified, tender-conscienced rebel, but a prison or a halter.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

“Madam,” said the Major, “you are not perhaps entirely ignorant that the more tender-conscienced among us have scruples at certain practices, so general amongst your people at times of rejoicing, that you may be said to insist upon them as articles of faith, or at least greatly to resent their omission.”

Peveril of the Peak 1822

"Madam," said the Major, "you are not perhaps entirely ignorant that the more tender-conscienced among us have scruples at certain practices, so general amongst your people at times of rejoicing, that you may be said to insist upon them as articles of faith, or at least greatly to resent their omission."

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

But the high-hearted and tender-conscienced Hamlet, with his native bias towards introspection intensified and inflamed and directed and dilated at once by one imperative pressure and oppression of unavoidable and unalterable circumstance, was assuredly and exactly the one only man to be troubled by any momentary fear that such might indeed be the solution of his riddle, and to feel or to fancy for the moment some kind of ease and relief in the sense of that very trouble.

A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

Gilbert Pearson, to be lifted above the multitude; but when one feeleth that his exaltation is rather hailed with hate and scorn than with love and reverence — in sooth, it is still a hard matter for a mild, tender-conscienced, infirm spirit to bear — and God be my witness, that, rather than do this new deed, I would shed my own best heart’s-blood in a pitched field, twenty against one.”

Woodstock 1855