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broken-heartedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From broken-hearted + -ness.

Meanings

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