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dark hearted en · ADJ

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dark-hearted.
   alt of dark-hearted
   • May God have mercy on this dark hearted and wicked man, and save him from ruin. 1975, R. S. Miller, Misi Gete: John Geddie pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides:
   • Upon the Baltic ash assuming size it becomes dark hearted, a remark which applies to it without exception. 1894, William Stevenson, Wood: Its Use as a Constructive Material, page 124:
   • As they talked, neither of them noticed Scarfeather, the darkest hearted crow there had ever been, perched on a tree and listening to them. The news made Scarfeather very angry and, as he sat and watched them, a plan began to form in his cruel mind. 1988, Arvan Kumar, “Closer to the Son”, in The Heartstone Odyssey: Chandra’s Story, Dingwall, Highland: Allied Mouse, published 1999 (14th printing), page 112:
   • The star, broad blazing, lingers till it steep / Its gathered folds of radiance where the West / Reflects the unpeopled heaven on the breast / Of seas now dimmed, which mourn, their glory gone, / The lifeless splendours of an empty throne. / Well mightst thou, star of beauteous glory, be / To darker hearted men a deity. 1847 May–August, “Green Point. (Table Bay.)”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XLIX, London: Kent and Richards, […], →OCLC, page 427:
   • There never was a darker hearted or a more criminal strangling of a mighty people than that attempted by “Bill” Clark and four-eyed Wellcome at Helena this week. 1899 January 14, “Caught in the Act: ‘Billie’ and His Gang of Boodlers Are Hauled Up Short for Their Crooked Work. […]”, in The Butte Times, volume 5, number 52, Butte, Mont., →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
   • How sad and dark hearted In deep pain I pine, Since fortune has parted Her fondness from mine. 1894, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society:

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