Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.
L'Estrange.
3. Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature;
effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you.
Deut. xxviii. 56.
4. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness;
compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to
pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
James v. 11.