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▪ I. heart-burning, n.|ˈhɑːtbɜːnɪŋ|
[f. heart n. + burning vbl. n.]
1. A heated and embittered state of mind, which is felt but not openly expressed; jealousy or discontent rankling in the heart; grudge.
1513More Rich. III, Wks. 38/1 A long continued grudge and hearte brennynge betwene the Quenes kinred and the kinges blood. 1661Marvell Corr. xxxii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 76 Lest there should be any new feud or hart-burning occasiond thereby. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 107 Which outrages occasioned as much vexation and heart-burning as does the modern right of search on the high seas.
b. pl. Feelings of this description; grudges.
16052 Vnnat. & Bloodie Murthers (Collier) 31 Their seuerall seruants could not agree one with another, but would expresse their heart-burnings. 1768Boswell Corsica ii. (ed. 2), 120 There was nothing but heart-burnings, and miserable dissensions. 1874Burnand My Time iii. 23, I was manager of a theatre where there were neither heart-burnings nor jealousies.
†2. = heartburn n. 2. Obs.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Azedia, sharpnes, sowernes of stomack, hartburning. 1635Swan Spec. M. vi. §4 (1643) 262 Lettice..cooleth a hot stomach called heart-burning. 1747Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 74 The Heart Burning, a sharp gnawing Pain at the Orifice of the Stomach.
attrib.1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 749 The hearts of them that die of the heart-burning disease.
▪ II. ˈheart-burning, ppl. a.
[f. heart n. + burning ppl. a.]
That inflames, kindles, or consumes the heart; distressing the heart.
1588Shakes. L. L. L. i. i. 280 Thine in all complements of deuoted and heart-burning heat of dutie. 1590Spenser F. Q. ii. vii. 22 Disloyall Treason, and hart-burning Hate. 1821Byron Juan v. xxiv, Swallowing a heart-burning sigh. |