Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of brokenheartedness.
It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC2 more examples
The poem uses the metaphor of putting his “heart on a fork,” and anticipates that the process necessarily leads to broken-heartedness and tears.
2009, Johanna Shapiro, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry, →ISBN, page 236Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.
2013, Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain, →ISBN, page 26
Origin
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