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# tender

«tender» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **young, soft** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

young, soft

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

Young, soft or delicate; in the first sentence it means a young calf, and in the third it means young, soft grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tender/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "tender" usually means soft and easy to cut or chew, or loving and gentle. The old sense includes young and delicate, and all three sentences use that sense.

### examples

- And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it. (Torah GEN.18.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tender/#x1)
- Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were! (Andersen's Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tender/#x2)
- My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb. (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tender/#x3)

### primary record

tender

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 133 (Torah 5, tales 128, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 15.1 (Torah alone 11.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Who redeemeth Thy life from the pit; who encompasseth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1804/)
- [Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live; for Thy law is my delight.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2240/)
- [The LORD is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2624/)
- [For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.93/)
- [A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.331/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tender» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/T/tender/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.