Meaning of tender-mindedly | Babel Free

Definitions

Adverb. [C2]

Examples

“William tough-mindedly adopted the ideology of the expanding bourgeoisie, while Henry, Jr., tender-mindedly turned to the philosophy of the leisure class and "joined himself, therefore, to the great aristocratic tradition in European literature."”

“They are either tough-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is the real world or tender-mindedly convinced that the world of sense-experience is somehow an illusion, or at any rate an imperfect, changing, and therefore an unreal copy or reflection […]”

“We do not owe greater help tender-mindedly out of pity for the weak, but tough-mindedly out of our interest in possible enlightenment by those receiving assistance.”

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