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dear heart en · INTJ
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(archaic) Expressing surprise or emphasis.
"Dear heart!" exclaimed Mrs. Plummer soon after, as something rolled over the bare white boards from the folds of a dress she was vigorously shaking, before replacing it in the drawer, "how did she come by pearls?"
1891, Maxwell Gray, In the Heart of the Storm, volume 2, page 119:“Dead — aye, sure enough he’s dead and gone below,” said the fellow with the bandage; “but if ever sperrit walked, it would be Flint’s. Dear heart, but he died bad, did Flint!”
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
dear heart en · NOUN
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Term of affection; sweetheart.
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