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- adjective Easily moved by another's distress; compassionate.
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- adjective
compassionate for another'sdistress - adjective easily moved to
love
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Examples
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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Eugene Cho: The Tragic Paradox Of Christian Jerks Eugene Cho 2011
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A good thing, because I'm sure there was a tenderhearted little Pilgrim girl like my 11-year-old daughter Poppet who would burst into tears at the sight of a beautiful wild creature, natural and free, now lying dead next to the mashed potatoes.
Thoughts of Thanks, Now That the Bird Is Gone P.J. O'Rourke 2011
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In truth, when it becomes embedded in your fingernails after changing a particularly messy diaper and the only way to get rid of the real or psychological stink is to cut them off and bleach the cuticles, no immature but ultimately tenderhearted guy will ever regard feces as if it were a coat of blush and gaze at you lovingly, realizing at long last that he's found his soul mate.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Eugene Cho: The Tragic Paradox Of Christian Jerks Eugene Cho 2011
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In truth, when it becomes embedded in your fingernails after changing a particularly messy diaper and the only way to get rid of the real or psychological stink is to cut them off and bleach the cuticles, no immature but ultimately tenderhearted guy will ever regard feces as if it were a coat of blush and gaze at you lovingly, realizing at long last that he's found his soul mate.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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In truth, when it becomes embedded in your fingernails after changing a particularly messy diaper and the only way to get rid of the real or psychological stink is to cut them off and bleach the cuticles, no immature but ultimately tenderhearted guy will ever regard feces as if it were a coat of blush and gaze at you lovingly, realizing at long last that he's found his soul mate.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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Here we learn that she is Deza Malone, a straight-A student and the daughter of a "willowy and radiant and spell-bindingly beautiful" mother and a father who delights in alliteration she is his Darling Daughter Deza, as well as the little sister of a honey-voiced, tenderhearted teenage brother.
The Book That Broke the Color Line Meghan Cox Gurdon 2012
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In Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," for example, the schoolteacher of the title imagines her students as "tenderhearted vultures."
In Fiction, Opposites Attract Jennifer Vanderbes 2011
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"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Tim Tebow: God's Quarterback Patton Dodd 2011
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In truth, when it becomes embedded in your fingernails after changing a particularly messy diaper and the only way to get rid of the real or psychological stink is to cut them off and bleach the cuticles, no immature but ultimately tenderhearted guy will ever regard feces as if it were a coat of blush and gaze at you lovingly, realizing at long last that he's found his soul mate.
Meredith C. Carroll: Potty Training Our Daughter: Do We Have To? Meredith C. Carroll 2010
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