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comparative more tendre, superlative most tendre
Obsolete form of tender. examples
third-person singular simple present tendres, present participle tendring, simple past and past participle tendred
plural tendres
(archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection. quotations
You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre […]
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard