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ˈheart-piercing, a.
[See pierce v.]
That pierces, or is fitted to pierce, the heart; fig. that appeals keenly to the heart or emotions. Hence ˈheart-piercingly adv.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xi. 30 The point of his hart-percing dart. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xiii. 4 The Pharisees were not a button the better for all those heart-piercing sermons of our Saviour. 1715–20Pope Iliad xiv. 569 Heart-piercing anguish struck the Graecian host. a1797M. Wollstonecraft Posthum. Wks. (1798) I. 50 So heart-piercingly pathetic in the little airs they would sing. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 460 That sweet heart-piercing melody. |