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unˈtender, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not tender in dealing with others; ungentle, unkind. Also const. of.
1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 108 So young, and so vntender? 1611― Cymb. iii. iv. 12 Why tender'st thou that Paper to me, with A looke vntender? c1678J. B. in Spirit of Popery (1680) 75 Is it reasonable..to be thus tender of a few men, and untender of the grand Concerns of..our Master? c1710Congreve Lament. Helen over Hector 9 In all which time..Not one untender Word or look of Scorn, Which I too often have from others born. 1774Beattie Minstrel ii. xxxi, Let untender thoughts afar be driven. 1825Lamb Elia ii. Wedding, Is there not something untender..in the hurry which a beloved child is sometimes in to tear herself from the paternal stock. 1898G. W. E. Russell Collect. & Recoll. ii. 14 In those untender days he was considered too delicate to remain at a Public School.
†2. Not having a tender conscience; lacking in religious susceptibility. Also transf. Obs.
a1658Durham Comm. Rev. (1660) 187 We will find, that many who have been untender, have had hand at this work. 1680in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. XLV. 235 This wofull dreadfull defection in these two emenent men is to be lamented... Among them Mr. Castairs elder is the most unsound and untender. 1730T. Boston Mem. (1899) 37 He, being both a weak and untender man, was unacceptable to the parish. Ibid. 136 The untender carriage of some ministers in Nithsdale. 1765J. Brown Chr. Jrnl. 262 Untender professors loudly bawl against the sins of others. a1812Maclean Disc. Wks. 1848 VI. 195 By an untender walk guilt has accumulated upon the conscience.
3. Not immature.
1879Bain Educ. as Science xii. 416 The effect produced on tender years will be submerged in the un-tender years that follow.
Hence unˈtenderness.
a1658Durham Comm. Rev. (1660) 181 There was much..unwatchfulnesse and untendernesse in both these respects before God. 1680in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot. XLV. 248 An untenderness and sinfull love of life. 1724E. Erskine Serm. Wks. (1791) 122 If through untenderness ye provoke him to withdraw. 1883Century Mag. 55 This education..he had never got.—Hence his untenderness. |