Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much.
Wringing it thus, you’ll tender me a fool.
#Define tender crack
Or, not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Owe not all creatures by just right to thee I crave no more than what your highness offer’d Some of the chiefest laity professed with greater stomach their judgments, that such a discipline was little better than popish tyranny, disguised and tendered unto them. To offer to exhibit to propose to acceptance. In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.Įtymology: tendre, French. Thou hast shew’d thou mak’st some tender of my life, Our tenders of duty every now and then miscarry.Īddison. To declare the calling of the Gentiles by a free, unlimited tender of the gospel to all. The earl accepted the tenders of my service. That you have ta’en his tenders for true pay, Offer proposal to acceptance.Ī whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender, When yet he was but tender bodied, a mother should not sell him.Įtymology: from the verb. In things that are tender and unpleasing, break the ice by some whose words are of less weight, and reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.įrancis Bacon. You, that are thus so tender o’er his follies, Thee o’er to harshness her eyes are fierce, but thine The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.Īs I have been tender of every particular person’s reputation, so I have taken care not to give offence.Īddison. This not mistrust but tender love injoins.īe tender hearted and compassionate towards those in want, and ready to relieve them. The tender kindness of the church it well beseemeth to help the weaker sort, although some few of the perfecter and stronger be for a time displeased. Compassionate anxious for another’s good. When Cyrus had overcome the Lydians, that were a warlike nation, and devised to bring them to a more peaceable life, instead of their short warlike coat he clothed them in long garments like women, and instead of their warlike musick appointed to them certain lascivious lays, by which their minds were so mollified and abated, that they forgot their former fierceness, and became most tender and effeminate.Įdmund Spenser, on Ireland. The face when we are born is no less tender than any other part of the body: it is use alone hardens it, and makes it more able to endure the cold. Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces īut by being less exposed to the air, they become less able to endure it. Leah was tender eyed, but Rachael was well-favoured. To tread them with her tender feeling feet.
Unneath may she endure the flinty street, The earth brought forth the tender grass. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: tendre, French. Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" (of plants) not hardy easily killed by adverse growing condition (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail "affectionate children" "a fond embrace" "fond of his nephew" "a tender glance" "a warm embrace" "a tender heart" "a tender smile" "tender loving care" "tender memories" "a tender mother"Īffectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm adjective Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships Tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutter nounĪ boat for communication between ship and shore Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of anotherĪ formal proposal to buy at a specified priceĬar attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water Something that can be used as an official medium of payment Princeton's WordNet Rate this definition: 5.0 / 2 votes
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