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Etymology tree English heartbreaking Middle English -ly English -ly English heartbreakingly From heartbreaking + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a heartbreaking manner
   • It was a chilly progress and heartbreakingly slow. 1930, Alice Alison Lide, Margaret Alison Johansen, chapter VI, in Ood-le-uk the Wanderer, page 80:
   • Ennis then marries his fianceé Alma (Williams), while Jack meets and marries rodeo rider Lureen (Hathaway). It's four years before the two men meet again, at which point Jack asks Ennis to leave Alma and build a life with him. Heartbreakingly, it's a giant leap that Ennis can't bring himself to make. 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
   • Cooper’s death was heartbreakingly familiar: 31 children died of vehicular heatstroke in the United States in 2014, the year the boy died, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). 2022 July 2, Ray Sanchez, “The hot-car death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris was heartbreakingly familiar. His father’s unusual murder conviction has now been thrown out”, in CNN:

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