tendersome

English

Etymology

From tender +‎ -some.

Adjective

tendersome (comparative more tendersome, superlative most tendersome)

1. Characterised or marked by tenderness
   • 1837, Thomas Bacon, First Impressions and Studies from Nature in Hindostan:

     I'm afraid she's not long for this world; poor dear young lady, she was never used to hard words, and can't bear it, for she was always a tendersome thing like, and now her strength is clean worn out.

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     This ain't the safest place to sit'n'think, Zachry, said Meronym, so tendersome that fin'ly my tears oozed out.

   • 2011, Elsa De Visser, Shalumba:

     Once observing in a tendersome moment / I noted the wind as stealthily He passed; [...]