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Tender [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Soft; easily impressed, broken, bruised or injured; not firm or hard; as tender plants; tender flesh; tender grapes. Deuteronomy 32:2 . Song of Solomon 2:13 .

2. Very sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

3. Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.

4. Delicate; effeminate; not hardy or able to endure hardship.

5. The tender and delicate woman among you. Deuteronomy 28:54 .

6. Weak; feeble; as tender age. Genesis 33:13 .

7. Young and carefully educated. Proverbs 9:1 .

8. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; easily affected by the distresses of another, or anxious for another's good; as the tender kindness of the church; a tender heart.

9. Compassionate; easily excited to pity, forgiveness or favor.

10. The Lord is pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:11 .

11. Luke 1:78 .

12. Exciting kind concern.

13. I love Valentine;

14. His life's as tender to me as his soul.

15. Expressive of the softer passions; as a tender strain.

16. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; with of. Be tender of your neighbor's reputation.

17. The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.

18. Gentle; mild; unwilling to pain.

19. You that are so tender o'er his follies,

20. Will never do him good.

21. Apt to give pain; as, that is a tender subject; things that are tender and unpleasing.

22. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; pathetic; as tender expressions; tender expostulations.

Tender [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that attends or takes care of; a nurse.

2. A small vessel employed to attend a larger one for supplying her with provisions and other stores, or to convey intelligence and the like.

3. In law, an offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture which would be incurred by non-payment or non-performance; as the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note or bond with interest. To constitute a legal tender such money must be offered as the law prescribes; the offer of bank notes is not a legal tender So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.

4. There is also a tender of issue in pleadings, a tender of an oath, etc.

5. Any offer for acceptance. The gentleman made me a tender of his services.

6. The thing offered. This money is not a legal tender

7. Regard; kind concern. [Not in use.]

Tender [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To offer in words; or to exhibit or present for acceptance.

2. All conditions, all minds tender down

3. Their service to lord Timon.

4. To hold; to esteem.

5. Tender yourself more dearly. [Not in use.]

6. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, for saving a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

Tender [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

2. A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.

3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.

4. An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

5. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.

6. The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.

7. Regard; care; kind concern.

Tender [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.

2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.

4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.

5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.

7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.

8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.

9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.

10. Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

Tender [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

2. To offer in words; to present for acceptance.

3. To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Tender Encyclopedia Britannica

TENDER. See Payment.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 173
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Tender-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence.

2. --When Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chronicles 13:7 .

3. Very susceptible of the softer passions of love, pity or kindness.

4. Be ye kind one to another, and tender-hearted Ephesians 4:32 .

Tender-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.

Tender-heartedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Susceptibility of the softer passions.

Tender-hefted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having great tenderness; easily moved.

Tendered [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Offered for acceptance.

Tendered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tenderfoot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.

Tendering [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Offering for acceptance.

Tendering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tenderling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A fondling; one made tender by too much kindness.

2. The first horns of a deer.

Tenderling [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

2. One of the first antlers of a deer.

Tenderloin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tender part of flesh in the hind quarter of beef.

Tenderloin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

Tenderly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. With tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain.

2. Brutus tenderly reproves.

3. Kindly; with pity or affection.

Tenderly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

Tenderness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being tender or easily broken, bruised or injured; softness; brittleness; as the tenderness of a thread; the tenderness of flesh.

2. The state of being easily hurt; soreness; as the tenderness of flesh when bruised or inflamed.

3. Susceptibility of the softer passions; sensibility.

4. Well we know your tenderness of heart.

5. Kind attention; anxiety for the good of another, or to save him from pain.

6. Scrupulousness; caution; extreme care or concern not to give or to commit offense; as tenderness of conscience.

7. Cautious care to preserve or not to injure; as a tenderness of reputation.

8. Softness of expression; pathos.

Tenderness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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Genesis 18:7

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd, selected a tender and choice calf, and gave it to a servant, who hurried to prepare it.

Genesis 29:17

Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favoured.

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

Genesis 33:13

And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 34:3

And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

Deuteronomy 28:54

So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

Deuteronomy 28:56

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’

2 Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

2 Kings 22:19

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

1 Chronicles 22:5

And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

1 Chronicles 29:1

Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

2 Chronicles 13:7

And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

Then worthless and wicked men gathered around him to resist Rehoboam son of Solomon when he was young, inexperienced, and unable to resist them.

2 Chronicles 34:27

Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.

Job 14:7

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

Job 38:27

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Psalms 25:6

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Remember, O LORD, Your compassion and loving devotion, for they are from age to age.

Psalms 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Psalms 40:11

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

Psalms 51:1

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.