单词 | tenderforeheaded |
释义 | > as lemmastender-foreheaded 1. With adjective or adverb prefixed, as high foreheaded, low foreheaded, well foreheaded. †tender-foreheaded: modest, meek. ΚΠ 1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. K3 The Gentleman is well forehanded and well foreheaded. 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 47 The Gnosticks..were tender-foreheaded..people compared to those high-crested and Seraphick Sophisters. 1670 J. Narborough Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) i. 64 These People are..low Fore-headed. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Jan. 3/1 High-foreheaded, colourless Madonnas. tender-foreheaded tender-foreheaded adj. modest, ready to blush. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > modesty > [adjective] simplec1300 measurablec1330 methec1390 murec1390 smallc1405 soleinc1450 timorous1474 modest1561 unbragging1570 unboldened1591 unpresuming1607 bragless1609 unambitious1621 boastless1632 unpompous1656 verecundous1656 sober1659 tender-foreheaded1659 unpragmatical1673 unpretending1681 unpresumptuous1704 unimportant1727 unaspiringa1729 inambitious1729 unassuming1730 unostentatiousa1739 unboastful1744 pretensionless1748 unarrogating1748 uncontending1748 unopinionated1775 unboasting1802 underbearing1802 mousy1812 un-ultra1817 unarrogant1831 low-flying1835 unconceited1838 unpretentious1838 uninflated1861 unvain1863 unbumptious1865 the mind > emotion > humility > feeling of shame > [adjective] > having sense of shame or decency shamefula950 pudic1490 pudicala1513 pudent1558 pudibund1656 tender-foreheaded1659 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 47 The Gnosticks..were tender-foreheaded..people compared to those high-crested and Seraphick Sophisters. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 94 What need then, that Christians should be so tender-foreheaded, as to be put out of countenance. < as lemmas |
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