untender

== English == === Etymology === From un- +‎ tender. === Adjective === untender (comparative more untender, superlative most untender) Not soft; harsh. Lacking sympathy, heartless, not empathetic. c.1603-1606, The Tragedy of King Lear, Act 1, Scene 1, Cordelia: Good my lord, / You have begot me, bred me, lov'd me: I / Return those duties back as are right fit, / Obey you, love you, and most honour you. / Why have my sisters husbands if they say / They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed, / That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry / Half my love with him, half my care and duty: / Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all. Lear: But goes thy heart with this? Cordelia: Ay, good my lord. Lear: So young, and so untender? Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true. a. 1874, Henry James, Master Eustace, in 1999, Complete Stories,1864-1874, page 656, Her parents had frowned on him and forced her into a marriage with poor dissolute Mr. Garnyer — a course the more untender as he had already spent half his own property and was likely to make sad havoc with his wife's. === Anagrams === undernet, unentred, unrented