By day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference—orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— marked by, responding to, or expressing the softer emotions : FOND, LOVING
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— Someone or something that is tender expresses gentle and caring feelings.
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Other Word Forms
tender
tenderer
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1 use of ‘tenderest’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster