heart-ache

plural heart-aches

1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic form of heartache.

   Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache.

   1931, Emma Goldman, Living My Life, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1934, page 316

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   So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.

   1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 23–24

   It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.

   1900 April, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published 17 May 1900, →OCLC