Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which makes tender: as, a meat-tenderer.
- noun One who makes a tender or offer.
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- adjective
comparative form oftender : moretender - noun One who
tenders (a bid, a contract, etc.).
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Examples
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Although he said nothing to her that he could not have said before everybody, he felt that she was becoming more and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her.
Anna Karenina 2003
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Although he said nothing to her that he could not have said before everybody, he felt that she was becoming more and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her.
Chapter XVI. Part I 1917
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The more we are like Jesus, the more we have of his Spirit, the tenderer will be our hearts and the more deeply will our souls be moved by the sufferings of others.
How to Live a Holy Life Charles Ebert Orr 1897
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Although he said nothing to her that he could not have said before everybody, he felt that she was becoming more and more dependent upon him, and the more he felt this, the better he liked it, and the tenderer was his feeling for her.
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869
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No woman was ever blessed with a gentler, tenderer husband.
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And that's why you can get much tenderer eggs - hard-boiled eggs, hard-cooked eggs, I prefer to call them, because you actually don't want to boil them.
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Whether I am more discriminating than I was in youth, or more narrow-minded, I cannot say, but the sad fact is that there are books I am now too old and stiff to read, which I may well have enjoyed had I encountered them in tenderer years.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1) 2009
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And I confess I depict it with brutal frankness, failing to give credit to the gentler, tenderer side of me.
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If, for instance, the fund had held a couple of hundred million dollars of Bear Stearns stock last week, might not the Fed have taken a tenderer view of the interests of Bear shareholders?
Retirement Policy 2009
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Of course I barred him from my moments with the Lady Om, but told him in general what passed, with exception of tenderer incidents that were not his business.
Chapter 15 2010
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