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单词 tender years
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tender years
4. Having the weakness and delicacy of youth; not strengthened by age or experience; youthful, immature. Chiefly in phrases tender age, tender years (also †tender of age).
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tenderc1330
unripe1548
unripened1561
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 252 He was tendre & ȝing.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 412 I watz ful ȝong & tender of age.
1454 Rolls of Parl. V. 242/1 An Acte made in the tendre age of the Kyng.
1539 Bible (Great) Gen. xxxiii. 13 My Lorde, Thou knowest, that the chyldren are tendre.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Sacrament ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 449 The true Christians in the tender time of Christ's Church called this Supper Love.
1586 Let. Earle Leycester 8 Infected with Poperie from her tender youth.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 250 He departed this life in his tender yeres.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. v. 18 Early instruction instilled into our tender minds.
1861 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 2) xix. 332 The great evil of imprisoning boys and girls of a tender age.
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