Impassioned vs Tender - What's the difference?

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Impassioned is a related term of tender.

As an adjective impassioned

is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

As a noun tender is

(label) (l) (fuel-carrying railroad car).

impassioned

English

Alternative forms

*empassioned

Adjective

(en adjective)

Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:

*:She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […].

*1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , VI:

*:The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

tender

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tendre, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Sensitive or painful to the touch.

* 1597 , , All's Well that Ends Well , 3,2:

* 2006 , Mike Myers (as the voice of the title character), Shrek (movie)

Be careful: that area is tender .

Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.

Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 56

the tender and delicate woman among you

(of food) Soft and easily chewed.

* 2001 , Joey Pantolino (character), The Matrix (movie)

The Matrix is telling my brain this steak is tender , succulent, and juicy.

Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

* L'Estrange

Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.

Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.

* Bible, James v. 11

The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

* Shakespeare

You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, / Will never do him good.

* Fuller

I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper.

Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.

Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.

* Francis Bacon

Things that are tender and unpleasing.

(nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.

(obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.

* Shakespeare

I love Valentine, / Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!

(obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of .

* Burke

tender of property

* Tillotson

The civil authority should be tender of the honour of God and religion.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* chicken tender * frost-tender * tenderise, tenderize * tenderly * tenderness * tender loving care, TLC * tenderfoot

Verb

(en verb)

To make tender or delicate; to weaken.

*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233:

To such as are wealthy, live plenteously, at ease, […] these viands are to be forborne, if they be inclined to, or suspect melancholy, as they tender their healths […].

* Putnam Fadeless Dyes [flyer packaged with granulated dye]:

Putnam Fadeless Dyes will not injure any material. Boiling water does tender some materials. […] Also, silk fibers are very tender when wet and care should be take not to boil them too vigorously.

to feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.

* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), (Romeo and Juliet) , 3,1 (First Folio edition):

And ?o good Capulet , which name I tender
As dearely as my owne, be ?atisfied.

Noun

(obsolete) regard; care; kind concern

Thou makest some tender of my life / In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.

The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.

Etymology 2

From .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.

(rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.

(nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.

(nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.

Synonyms

* (smaller boat) dinghy

Etymology 3

From (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

(formal) To offer, to give.

* Shakespeare

You see how all conditions, how all minds, tender down / Their services to Lord Timon.

* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Synonyms

* offer

Derived terms

* tenderable * to tender something out

Noun

(en noun)

A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.

(legal) A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

* 1599 ,

[...] if she should make tender of her love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the man,—as you know all,—hath a contemptible spirit.

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