单词 | heartsickness |
释义 | heartsicknessn. 1. Emotional pain or anguish; deep, abiding depression; despondency. Also (occasionally): a feeling of this. Cf. heartache n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > [noun] tintreghc893 threat971 piningOE murderOE anguish?c1225 woea1250 pinec1275 tormentc1290 languorc1300 heartbreakc1330 surcarkingc1330 martyrement1340 threst1340 agonyc1384 martyrdomc1384 tormentryc1386 martyre?a1400 tormentisec1405 rack?a1425 anguishing1433 angorc1450 anguishnessa1475 torture?c1550 heartsickness1556 butchery1582 heartache1587 anguishment1592 living hell1596 discruciation1597 heart-aching1607 throeing1615 rigour1632 crucifixion1648 lancination1649 bosom-hell1674 heart-rending1707 brain-racking1708 tormentation1789 bosom-throe1827 angoisse1910 1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 27v We must be free from al troublesome sturre of minde: from desire, & feare, from hertsicknesse, and voluptuousnesse. 1659 S. Rutherford Infl. Life of Grace iii. i. 198 Such never knew heart-sickness, nor the terrours of God, nor any real work on the conscience. 1705 J. Howe Disc. Expectation Future Blessedness 14 The gratefulness of Enjoyment is..set against the Heart-Sickness of Expectation. 1799 Battle of Nile: Dramatic Poem 28 With what reluctance, agony of thought, And faint heart sickness I recall the day On which ye fell. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 655 Amid the bustle & the heart-sickness of leaving all, I loved..this was forgotten. 1853 G. Aguilar Home Scenes & Heart Stud. 250 The unfortunate man turned from them with a heart-sickness, a loathing of himself and the whole world, which no human consolation could remove. 1916 Harper's Mag. Nov. 870/1 A depression that grew and grew until from a vague, uneasy pain it became heartsickness. 1992 N. Cohn Heart of World x. 111 At our lowest ebb we need only plunge in its sour-sweet depths and all weariness, hurt, heartsickness washed away. 2. Physical disease of or attributed to the heart; an instance of this. In later use also: nausea (cf. heart n. 4). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > nausea > types of nausea heartsickness1614 seasickness1625 sea-distempera1641 nausea1771 mal de mer1778 airsickness1784 morning sickness1844 pregnancy sickness1864 carsickness1867 trainsickness1876 motion sickness1881 travel sickness1900 space sickness1912 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry ii. 144 The priuie euill in Hawkes is a secret hart-sicknesse procured either by ouer-flying, corrupt food, cold, or other disorderly keeping. 1687 G. L. Gentleman's New Jockey i. xviii. 59 These [veins] are opened in case of Surfeits, Feavers, or Heart-sickness. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Heart-sickness in Oxen. 1781 H. Smythson Compl. Family Physician vii. xix. 575/2 Being seized with rigors, tremblings, heart-sickness, vomitings, giddiness and heaviness of the head. 1872 Monthly Homœopathic Rev. 16 744 1.30 p.m., ‘heart-sickness’ (faint nausea), lasting an hour, not relieved by dinner. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. v. 114 We had now over thirty men ailing. Some suffered from dysentery, others from fever, asthma, chest diseases, and heart sickness. 1916 Jrnl. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc. 48 703 Animals suffering from chronic or latent piroplasma-infections have always had a severe relapse to which they frequently succumbed when infected by a filterable virus, like horse-sickness, heart-sickness or rinderpest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1556 |
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