Meanings
nounhard-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural hard-heartednesses)
plural hard-heartednesses
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form 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 11871 more example
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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hard-heartedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hard-heartedness
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