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ˈheavy-ˈladen, a.
1. Laden or loaded heavily; bearing a heavy burden. Also fig.
c1440Jacob's Well xxxvii. (E.E.T.S.) 236 Þou art full of fruyte of vertuys, heuy ladyn wyth gode werkys. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 287 No toiling Teams from Harvest-labour come So late at Night, so heavy laden home. 1784Cowper Task i. 242 He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch, And heavy-laden brings his bev'rage home. 1859Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 13 One of Pickford's heavy⁓laden vans.
2. Weighed down with trouble, weariness, etc.; oppressed.
1611Bible Matt. xi. 28 Come vnto mee all ye that labour, and are heauie laden. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 47, I was sickly of body and mind, felt heavy-laden, and without any hope.
Hence heavy-ˈladenness.
1877A. Edersheim in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxvii. 3 The cure of weariness, and the relief of heavy-ladenness, lies in this—to take the cross upon ourselves. |