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ˈheart-quake
[See quake, and cf. earthquake.]
Palpitation of the heart; fig. sudden and violent emotion, as of terror, delight, etc.
1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 6 b, Somtyme commeth it [palsy] of..swounynge, hartquake, and superfluitye of bloode. c1611Chapman Iliad vii. 188 Heartquakes shook the joints Of all the Trojans. a1711Ken Anodynes Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 427 When I a Heart-quake feel within, And Pains, Mementos of my Sin. 1819Byron Juan ii. clxxxvi, Each kiss a heart-quake. 1884Browning Ferishtah, Two Camels 117 How a lip's mere tremble..cheek's just change of colour..effect a heartquake.
So ˈheart-quaking vbl. n. = prec.; ˈheart-quaking a.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xxxii. (1495) 246 Herte quakinge other Cardiacle comyth of defawte of the herte. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 25 This great heart-quaking dolor wail and mourn. |