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tenderer n. 投标者 投标者 Tender \ Ten" der\, a. [ Compar. { Tenderer}; superl. { Tenderest}.] [ F. tendre, L. tener; probably akin to tenuis thin. See { Thin}.] 1. Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained. [ 1913 Webster] Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. -- L' Estrange. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate. [ 1913 Webster] The tender and delicate woman among you. -- Deut. xxviii. 56. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another' s good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic. [ 1913 Webster] The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. -- James v. 11. [ 1913 Webster] I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Exciting kind concern; dear; precious. [ 1913 Webster] I love Valentine, Whose life' s as tender to me as my soul! -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. " Tender of property." -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild. [ 1913 Webster] You, that are thus so tender o' er his follies, Will never do him good. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain. [ 1913 Webster] 9. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. " Things that are tender and unpleasing." -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 10. ( Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining compounds; as, tender- footed, tender- looking, tender- minded, tender- mouthed, and the like. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful. [ 1913 Webster]
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