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Meanings of tenderest in English

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Usage of tenderest in English
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He had the bravest, and yet the tenderest, eyes in the world.
Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3
2
They gave the tenderest names to objects in appearance the most indifferent.
Paul and Virginia
3
Since the previous night he had been wounded in his tenderest feelings.
Mike
4
Mrs. Lasette folded the stricken girl to her heart in tenderest manner.
Trial and Triumph
5
The strongest, the tenderest, the most logical have their hours of weakness.
Les Misérables
6
From the deepest glow of red to the finest, tenderest, golden white.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature
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His hand touched her hair with the tenderest gesture as he whispered:
The Root of Evil
8
He thought of her with the tenderest reverence, the most sacred rejoicing.
Eleanor
9
All the consolation that I can lavish upon you, the tenderest sympathy-
Samuel Brohl and Company
10
He had one of the tenderest hearts, and a sincere good will.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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To the tenderest motherhood she combined a passionate temper with intense jealousy.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
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They were only such as one bearing the tenderest affection might write.
The Good Time Coming
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Their order, proceeding from the tenderest to the hardiest, is as follows.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
14
Nor was there any privileged age, except that of the tenderest childhood.
The Age of the Reformation
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Indeed, their relations might be said to be of the tenderest character.
The Bastonnais / Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775...
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Dalrymple, in his tenderest voice, asked what that one fate must be.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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