tender-conscienced, a.
(ˈtɛndəˈkɒnʃənst)
[Parasynthetic f. tender conscience (tender a. 11) + -ed2.]
Having a tender conscience; scrupulous.
| a 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 446 As if you were so tender conscienced that you would not keepe ought from him that were his. 1710 Let. to New Member Parlt. in Harl. Misc. (1810) XI. 156 Those tender-conscienced people, our moderate dissenters. 1880 Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 169 The high-hearted and tender-conscienced Hamlet. |