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English
Noun
heart-ache (countable and uncountable, plural heart-aches)
- Archaic form of heartache.
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. , volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, , →OCLC, pages 23–24:So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.
1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC:It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.