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hard-heartedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From hard-hearted + -ness.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of hardheartedness.
   alt of hardheartedness
   • For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love? 1998, John Milton, Roy Flannagan, The Riverside Milton, →ISBN, page 1187:
   • It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times. 2008, Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, →ISBN, page 56:

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