tenderhanded

Adjective

tender-handed (comparative more tender-handed, superlative most tender-handed)

1. Gentle; Having a light touch and compassionate actions.
   • Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm.1894, Alexander Whyte, Samuel Rutherford - and some of his correspondents
2. With hands that are very sensitive and easily hurt.
   • Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.1962, Roscoe Carlyle Buley, The Old Northwest: Pioneer Period, 1815-1840 - Volume 1, page 233

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