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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

Chaucer.

adv.

With tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain.

Brutus tenderly reproves.

Kindly; with pity or affection.

tenderly ‎(comparative more tenderly, superlative most tenderly)

- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 4
  and the hour striking at which I was oblig'd to dispatch my young man, I tenderly advised him of the necessity there was for parting

in a tender manner