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nounheartquake (plural heartquakes)
plural heartquakes
- figurativelyTrembling of the heart or emotions; trepidation; fear.
in many an hour of danger and heart-quake
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
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heartquake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartquake
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