untender

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) Not soft; harsh.
 * 2) Lacking sympathy, heartless, not empathetic.
 * 3) * c.1603-1606, The Tragedy of King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1,
 * Cordelia: Good my lord, / You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I / Return those duties back as are right fit, / Obey you, love you, and most honour you. / Why have my sisters husbands if they say / They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, / That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry / Half my love with him, half my care and duty: / Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.
 * Lear: But goes thy heart with this?
 * Cordelia: Ay, good my lord.
 * Lear: So young, and so untender?
 * Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.
 * , Henry James, Master Eustace, in 1999, Complete Stories,1864-1874, |most+untender%22&hl=en&ei=nDo1ToeaF4b8mAW3l8XwCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20untender%22&f=false page 656,
 * Her parents had frowned on him and forced her into a marriage with poor dissolute Mr. Garnyer — a course the more untender as he had already spent half his own property and was likely to make sad havoc with his wife's.
 * , Henry James, Master Eustace, in 1999, Complete Stories,1864-1874, |most+untender%22&hl=en&ei=nDo1ToeaF4b8mAW3l8XwCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22more|most%20untender%22&f=false page 656,
 * Her parents had frowned on him and forced her into a marriage with poor dissolute Mr. Garnyer — a course the more untender as he had already spent half his own property and was likely to make sad havoc with his wife's.