"This is what God asks of you: only this, to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with your God" (Micah 6:8).

Idas, who tenderly loved Marpessa, is eagerly rushing forward to receive her, while Apollo stares with surprise. at the unexpectedness of her decision (5)...

Gogol is both horrified and amused by his countrymen and their surroundings, but he loves both tenderly.

It was no kiss of passion - it was the kiss of a woman who loves deeply and tenderly, with every fibre of her being.

I married my cousin, whom I loved tenderly, and I thought she loved me too.

To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him.

My Tenderly Loved Detective, 1986 (post-modernist comedy based on the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

One night, at an amusement park, Natalia admits she has begun to love Javier as well and kisses him tenderly.

But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine.

Two children were born to them, whom they tenderly loved.