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ˈheart-beat
[See beat n.1 6.]
A beat or pulsation of the heart; fig. an emotion; transf. an extremely brief space of time.
1850Marg. Fuller Wom. 19th C. (1862) 211 Those who do not know one native heart-beat of my life. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. xxi. 218 Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 584/1 In another heart-beat the whole..valley was afloat. |