Meanings
- Discouraged.
“[…] heaven knows how much longer we may have to wait. Poor Edward! It puts him quite out of heart.”
1811, Jane Austen, chapter 20, in Sense and Sensibility, volume 1, London: T. Egerton, page 3083 more examples
[He] perceyuing the most part of the Brytaynes and Scottes to be but newe Souldiers, taken vp of late to fil the numbers, knew that by proceeding tyme they woulde be soone out of heart, throughe watching and euill harborough, in such sort that in the ende they shoulde be easie ynough to deale with:
1571, “The Historie of Scotlande”, in Holinshed’s Chronicles, London: John Hunne, page 33[…] he looked out of heart and very weary, having been all night afoot, either standing watch or doctoring the wounded.
1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 11, in Kidnapped, New York: Scribner, page 102The old man had come down the bank and was sitting on his heels nodding at Suttree’s work and making encouraging talk. He always expected everyone to be out of heart.
1979, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 24, in Suttree, New York: Random House
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