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† mild-heart, a. Obs.
(For forms see heart.)
[f. mild a. + heart n. Cf. OHG. milt-herzi.]
Merciful, kind-hearted.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 7 Eadᵹe biðon miltheorte [c 1000 Ags., c 1160Hatton, þa mild-heortan] forðon hiora vel ða miltheortnise him ᵹefylges. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 121 Mild-heorte he is togenes heom. c1205Lay. 16813 Þe king wes mild-heorte & heold hine stille. [1340Ayenb. 142 Þe milde herten and simple.]
Hence † mildheartful a., merciful; mildheartlaik (Ormin), † mildheartness, mercifulness.
c900Laws of ælfred c. 49 Hie ða gesetton, for ðære mildheortnesse þe Crist lærde,..þætte [etc.]. c1200Ormin 1142 Þatt he þeȝȝm þurrh hiss mildherrtleȝȝc Forrȝæfe þeȝȝre gilltess. Ibid. 2893 Forr aȝȝ birrþ rihhtwisnesse ben Þurrh mildheorrtnesse temmpredd. a1225Juliana 66 Mildheortfule godd milce þi meiden. a1300E.E. Psalter lxxxviii. 1 Mildehertnesses of lauerd [Vulg. misericordias Domini]. |