broken-heartedness

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English

Etymology

From broken-hearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

broken-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of brokenheartedness
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.
    • 2009, Johanna Shapiro, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry, →ISBN, page 236:
      The poem uses the metaphor of putting his “heart on a fork,” and anticipates that the process necessarily leads to broken-heartedness and tears.
    • 2013, Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain, →ISBN, page 26:
      Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
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