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Tender-hefted   Listen
adjective
Tender-hefted  adj.  Having great tenderness; easily moved. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tender-hefted" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the ways of Browning's imagination when working, as it so rarely did, on a deliberately fantastic theme. Hear again with what savage joy his Moon "rips the womb" of the cloud that crosses it; Shelley's Moon, in keeping with the ways of his more tender-hefted universe, merely broke its woof. So the gentle wife of James Lee sees in a vineyard "the vines writhe in rows each ...
— Robert Browning • C. H. Herford



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