Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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†UNTENDER, adj. Sc. usage: not having a tender conscience, insensitive to religious feeling. Hence untenderness.Sc. 1700 T. Boston Memoirs (1899) 136:
The untender carriage of some ministers in Nithsdale.Sc. 1724 E. Erskine Works (1785) 122:
If through untenderness ye provoke him to withdraw.Sc. a.1812 A. Maclean Works (1848) VI. 195:
By an untender walk guilt has accumulated upon the conscience.
