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English
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Etymology
From Middle English herte blood; equivalent to heart + blood.
Noun
heart-blood (uncountable)
- (literary, archaic) Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] I am not your king / Till I be crown’d and that my sword be stain’d / With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster; […]
1684, John Bunyan, Seasonable Counsel, or, Advice to Sufferers, London: Benjamin Alsop, page 35:We shall not need here to call you to mind about the Massacres that were in Ireland, Paris, Piedmont, and other places: where the godly in the night, before they were well awake, had, some of them, their heart blood running on the ground.