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steel-hearted, a. 1. Stout-hearted, courageous.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. iv. 2. 10 Dauid was not so steeleharted [L. ferreus], but that his aduersitie dyd cast hym intoo piteowse anguish of mynd. 1833J. Nyren Yng. Cricketer's Tutor (1902) 78 A handful of steel-hearted soldiers. 2. Hard-hearted; cruel, unfeeling; obdurate, inflexible.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. viii. 3. 23 Against the steele⁓harted despysers of God [L. contra ferreos Dei contemptores]. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. People Pref. 11 As for those fierce, those steel hearted men [L. istos feros ac ferreos]. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 378 Experienced and well-tried and steel-hearted men whom they call Judges. 1897E. Conybeare Hist. Cambridgesh. 128 Who could be so steel-hearted that that woman could not bend him to her wishes? |