I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's; Or Edward's soft
and pitiful, like mine.
Shak.
The meek or soft shall inherit the earth.
Tyndale.
7. Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory;
courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
Prov. xv. 1.
A face with gladness overspread, Soft smiles, by human kindness
bred.
Wordsworth.