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ˈheart-break, n. (a.)
[See break n.1]
A breaking of the heart; great and overpowering sorrow, such as breaks the heart; overwhelming distress of mind.
1583Babington Commandm. vii. (1637) 64 Those griefes, cares, heart-breakes, and sorrowes, which are incident daily to maried folks. 1598Shakes. Merry W. v. iii. 11 Better a little chiding, then a great deale of heart-breake. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 130 [This] deformitie being a sorrow to the father, and almost a heart-breake to the daughter. 1828Scott Aunt Marg. Mirror i, The poor girl..died of heart-break.
†B. adj. Heart-breaking. Obs.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xxii. 105 Shunne Jelousie that heart-breake loue. 1599T. M[oufet] Silk-wormes 63 The hart-breake crush of melancholies wheele.
So ˈheart-break v. trans. (nonce-wd.), to break the heart of. ˈheart-breaker, (a) one who breaks hearts; (b) a curl, a love-lock: by Butler used contemptuously of Samson's long hair. ˈheart-breaking vbl. n. = heart-break n. ˈheart-breaking ppl. a., causing intense sorrow or crushing grief, extremely distressing; hence ˈheart-breakingly adv.
1792Burns What can a young Lassie do iv, I'll cross him, and wrack him, until I *heart-break him.
1663Butler Hud. I. i. 253 Like Sampson's *Heart-breakers, it grew In time to make a Nation rue. a1687Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 124 A red Heart-breaker next she mow'd off, A Wart that Dido was full proud of. 1863N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 301 We don't refer to the ball-room butterfly..but to the regular professional heart-breaker.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. ii. 74 It is a *heart-breaking to see a handsome man loose-Wiu'd. c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 56 They took them to the fields to her Majesty's great dissatisfaction and heart⁓breaking. 1885–6Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxli. 5 Head⁓breaking and heart-breaking attend the anointings of the riotous.
1591Spenser Teares Muses 6 Making your musick of *hart-breaking mone. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 163 Nothing can more Heart-breaking Grief excite, Than utmost Love, repaid with utmost Spite.
1886A. Thomas Reigning Favourite iii. ix. 169 Dull, level tones that were *heart-breakingly significant. |