a. [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. Lett. 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.
