heart-ache

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English

Noun

heart-ache (countable and uncountable, plural heart-aches)

Archaic form of heartache.
- 1863, J Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned”, in 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 Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo 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.
- 1931, Emma Goldman, Living My Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1934, page 316:
  Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache.

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