tener (tender: sensitive): mollis (soft, gentle): blandus (showing visible signs of affection): amoris plenus (full of love): amans (mostly with genitive of a person tenderly beloved; e.g., uxoris): pius (full of dutiful affection to parents, children, etc.): indulgens (overlooking faults). (The words are found in this connection and order), amans indulgensque. [Observe, affectuosus, in very late writers: Macrobius, Cassiodorus, Tert.]. Affectionate upbraidings, molles querelae: to write an affectionate letter to anybody, litteras amoris plenas dare ad aliquem: very affectionate words, verba blandissima, amantissima.