tender-mindedly

See also: tendermindedly

English

Etymology

tender-minded +‎ -ly

Adverb

tender-mindedly (comparative more tender-mindedly, superlative most tender-mindedly)

1. Alternative form of tendermindedly
   • 1933, Scribner's Magazine, volume 93, page 391:

     William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature."

   • 1958, Crane Brinton, A History of Civilization, volume 2, page 335:

     They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […]

   • 2008, Clark Butler, Human Rights Ethics: A Rational Approach, →ISBN, pages 10–11:

     We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.