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▪ I. tenderly, adv.|ˈtɛndəlɪ|
[f. tender a. + -ly2.]
In a tender manner; with tenderness.
1. With delicacy or softness of touch, action, or treatment; softly, gently.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 171 And Zepherus and flora gentilly Yaf to the floures softe and tenderly. c1440York Myst. xxx. 135 Tendirly me touche. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 407 The Moore..will as tenderly be led by'th' Nose As Asses are. 1712Steele Spect. No. 526 ⁋3, I should be glad to have them handled a little tenderly. 1885Athenæum 23 May 669/1 Sous Bois..is another tenderly painted, broad, and expressive piece.
†b. So as to be tender or soft.
†c. In a slight or fragile manner. Obs.
1604E. Grimstone Hist. Siege Ostend 220 Old shooes tenderly sodden. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 142 The Body of the Bee is divided into three Parts, very tenderly join'd together.
2. With tender feeling.
a. With affection or compassion; lovingly, dearly, kindly; pityingly, mercifully, leniently.
13..Cursor M. 17288 + 281 Oute-taken his moder þat loued him tenderly. 1465Paston Lett. II. 200, I pray yow that ye will tenderly understond this letter. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. iii. 48 The which..My stooping dutie tenderly shall shew. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 226 Rather than fail, they will defy That which they love most tenderly. 1826Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. I. 204 Thy remembrance..I tenderly received. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 640 He will generally connive at it, or punish it very tenderly. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 230 She looked at Basil tenderly. 1900Westm. Gaz. 30 July 7/2 A tenderly-worded message of condolence.
†b. With kind or friendly consideration or attention; indulgently. (Cf. tender v.2 3.) Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 371 Þerfore lordis schulden take hede fulle tendirly to þis voyce of criste. 1571in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 408 All which I beseech your honour tenderly to consider. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol., Chancerie §98 The premisses tenderly considered.
c. With tender emotion; with acute sensibility or sensitiveness.
a1300Cursor M. 14308 Tenderli he wep, and said, ‘And quar haf yee his bode laid?’ c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 46 Petre grette full tenderly, when he had forsaken Criste. 1609Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lxxxii, The Lady Bona takes most tenderly To be so mockt. a1674Clarendon Life (1759) I. 163 [This] the Chancellor took very heavily, and the Lord Falkland out of his Friendship to him, more tenderly. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 320 Greece alone, you tell me, presents scenes and points of view so tenderly affecting.
3. With delicate nurture; softly, indulgently; effeminately; also, with the tenderness of youth.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 171 Sent..Fro freendes þat so tendrely hire kepte. c1440Jacob's Well 104 Þou hast be norysched tenderly. 1552Huloet, Tenderlye, molliter, muliebriter. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 182 Polycletus made Diadumenon tenderly youthfull. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 369 Such works..as tenderly-nurtured women shrink from.
4. Timidly, charily, cautiously. (Cf. 1.)
a1628Preston Breastpl. Love (1631) 149 When a man hath no ground to set his foote on, he will doe it tenderly and warily. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Detached Th. on Bks., The poor gentry..venturing tenderly, page after page.
▪ II. † ˈtenderly, a. Sc. Obs. rare.
[f. as prec. + -ly1.]
Of a tender sort.
1567Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 13/2 Experience of the naturall affectioun and tenderly lufe he hes in all tymes borne. |