broken-heartedadj.
/ˈbrəʊk(ə)nˈhɑːtɪd/ Having a broken heart; heart-broken; having the spirits crushed by grief or despair. See break v. 7c and broken adj. 6.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adjective] > broken-hearted
broken-hearted1526
heartbroken1572
heartsore1597
heartstruck1615
heartbroke1621
bosom-stricken1859
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Luke iv. 18 To heale the broken harted.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. x. 221 You tell men that they must not come to Christ, till they are broken-hearted.
1685 in Roxburghe Ballads (1886) VI. 121 Say, ‘the poor Shepherd he dy's broken-hearted’.
1792 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum IV. 358 Had we..Never met—or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xii. 172 He returned from college hopeless and broken-hearted, and fell into a decline. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 652 The broken-hearted widows and destitute orphans.
Derivatives
broken-ˈheartedly adv.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adverb]
broken-heartedly1678
brokenly1816
strickenly1880
1678 T. Manton 20 Serm. i, in Wks. (1871) II. 178 We ought..humbly and broken-heartedly to..accept of the grace.
broken-ˈheartedness adv.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [noun]
brokennessa1617
heartbrokenness1720
broken-heartedness1796
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 98 Their chagrin and broken heartedness at the loss of their lands.
1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life (1884) III. 136 He who would preach to the times must preach to the broken-heartedness of the day.
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