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Mar. 13, 2015
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\in-TEN-uh-reyt\
verb
1. to make soft or tender; soften.
Quotes
I know not whether I do not too much indulge the vain longings of affection; but I hope they intenerate my heart, and that when I die like my Tetty, this affection will be acknowledged in a happy interview…
-- , Samuel Johnson in The Life of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, 1791
Origin
Intenerate entered English in the late 1500s and finds its roots in the Latin term tener meaning "tender."
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