tenderly
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tenderly (comparative more tenderly, superlative most tenderly)
- In a tender manner; gently; sweetly.
- 1749, John Cleland, “part 4”, in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, London: G. Fenton, OCLC 13050889:
- and the hour striking at which I was oblig'd to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting
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in a tender manner
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