heartgrief en · NOUN
Etymology
From heart + grief.
Meanings
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(uncountable) heartache; sorrow
It was a heartgrief to him to give up the young man, for he had reared him from the baptism water, and he had been a faithful servant unto him up to this day.
2021, Wilhelm Meinhold, Sidonia, the Sorceress:Although thir drudge, to be thir fool or jeſter, / And in my midſt of ſorrow and heart-grief / To ſhew them feats, and play before thir god, / The worſt of al indignities, yet on me / Joyn'd with extream contempt? [...]
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, pages 79–80, lines 1349–1353: