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ˈheart-bound, ppl. a.
[See bound ppl. a.2]
Bound in heart, having the heart bound: a. Having the heart enchained or entirely devoted (to an object). †b. Having the heart shut up or fast-closed (to a person); pitiless, hard-hearted (obs.).
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 92 Her, who both them did possesse As heart-bound slaues. 1616T. Adams Serm. Wks. 1861 I. 169 The most laxative prodigals, that are lavish..to their lusts, are yet heart-bound to the poor. 1618T. Gainsford Hist. P. Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 82 Because she should not think him barren of education, nor heart-bound to his ambitious designs. |