Tenderness

(noun.) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.

(noun.) warm compassionate feelings.

(noun.) a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); 'the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness'; 'after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on'.

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• It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• We redoubled our tenderness and earnest attentions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• In all the grandeur of these forests there is repose; in all their freshness there is tenderness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Admirable tenderness! 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I could not but perceive that Perdita loved Raymond; methought also that he regarded the fair daughter of Verney with admiration and tenderness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• A wonderful tenderness burned in him, at the sight of her quivering, so sensitive fingers: and at the same time he was full of rage and callousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But in all the intimate relations of life his essential tenderness was manifest. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Perdita looked at him like one amazed; her expressive countenance shone for a moment with tenderness; to see him only was happiness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I have still some tenderness left for you. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• There is that in woman's tenderness which induces her to believe too easily. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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