Definition of "tenderhearted" [tenderhearted]

• Easily moved by another's distress; compassionate. (adjective)

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• "In Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," for example, the schoolteacher of the title imagines her students as "tenderhearted vultures.""
• "Here we learn that she is Deza Malone, a straight-A student and the daughter of a "willowy and radiant and spell-bindingly beautiful" mother and a father who delights in alliteration she is his Darling Daughter Deza, as well as the little sister of a honey-voiced, tenderhearted teenage brother."
• ""And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.""