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tendresse

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Borrowed from French tendresse.

noun tendresses

  1. countable, uncountable Tenderness, gentle intimacy or affection. A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal. He is not a gentleman. But how magically his singing violin can conjure up a tendresse, a compassion for Lolita that makes us entranced with the book while abhorring its autho

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"tendresse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tendresse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tendresse. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tendresse

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"tendresse." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tendresse.

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@misc{tendresse_2026,
  title = {tendresse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tendresse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}