softheartedness


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soft·heart·ed

 (sôft′här′tĭd, sŏft′-)
adj.
Easily moved; tender.
soft′heart′ed·ly adv.
soft′heart′ed·ness n.
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Noun1.softheartedness - a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
tenderness
concern - a feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate"
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Tamoszius made good wages; and little by little the family were paying back their debt to Marija, so she ought soon to have enough to start life upon--only, with her preposterous softheartedness, she would insist upon spending a good part of her money every week for things which she saw they needed.
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The 'bogus refugee' thus joins the 'queue jumpers,' 'the terrorists,' and the 'dependents'--racialized figures, positioned as threatening, who wait at Canadian borders, looking for a gap in security or an excess of the mythological Canadian softheartedness." (54)
Queer Credibility in the Homonation-State: Interrogating the Affective Impacts of Credibility Assessments on Racialized Sexual Minority Refugee Claimants
They've been enabled-by an astounding forgetfulness, a sentimental softheartedness, an inability to be angry for long and to demand justice for wrongs done.
43 years after the fact

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