单词 | heartsore |
释义 | heartsoren. 1. Emotional pain or heartache, typically caused by loss, grief, or severe disappointment; deep sorrow. Also (later chiefly): an instance or cause of such sorrow. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [noun] > heartbreaking heartsorea1200 heart-breaking1574 heartbreak1583 a1200 (?OE) MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 207 Cordis contricio..þat is herte sor for mannes oȝene sinne. c1390 Swete Ihesu Now (Vernon) l. 82 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 12 (MED) Ihesu, þou seydest þat þou wore Ful of serwe and herte sore. a1500 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 456 Haue compassion & hert sare When þou sees any febely fare. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 17 With siching, sobbing, and with greit hart-sair. 1539 T. Elyot Bankette of Sapience f. 45 A folyshe chylde is the fathers hart-sore. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. M7 That godly knight..His onely hart sore, and his onely foe. 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 114 As Ægina to Athens, λημὴ, the eiesore thereof; so is this to Rome, the hartsoare thereof. 1642 J. Taylor Dis. of Times Thomason Tracts CXXXVI. No. 6. A2v The Immedicable tumour of Faction..swells so extreamely big in the Universall sight of all, that it becomes a heart-sore to all true-hearted protestants. 1781 C. Johnstone Hist. John Juniper I. iii. iv. 151 The loss of the first gloss..was long an heart-sore to him. 1785 C. Macklin Man of World (new ed.) iii. 38 I met many heart sores, and disappointments. 1845 Graham's Mag. July 18/2 That boy will cause you many a heart-sore yet. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 54 By-and-by she promised herself that she should get used to her heart-sores. 1921 Single Tax Rev. May 79/1 There..in the tenement districts are vast bogs of misery and pollution, a scandal to Christian civilization and a heart-sore to all lovers of the human race. 1991 A. Sher Indoor Boy (1992) xx. 186 ‘It's going to give me bad heartsore, man..to see people shitting on the head of my good master.’ 2006 K. Langdale Redemption iii. 75 Even less do I want to hear the heartsores of an elderly man. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or horses > disorders of chest enceur1600 heartsore1600 anticor1607 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxviii. 184 (margin) The hartsore or swelling of the kernels of the hart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). heartsoreadj. Chiefly literary and poetic. 1. Suffering emotional distress; grieved at heart; unhappy. Cf. heartsick adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > broken-heartedness > [adjective] > broken-hearted broken-hearted1526 heartbroken1572 heartsore1597 heartstruck1615 heartbroke1621 bosom-stricken1859 1597 R. Parry Sinetes Passions sig. F Farewell my trust which voide wast of all meede, And thou heart-sore attend my miserie. 1621 T. Gataker Sparke toward Kindling of Sorrow for Sion 7 Not to be grieued at the heart, yea not to be heart-sore and sicke againe with griefe, as things then stood. 1799 Filial Indiscretions II. xxxvii. 184 L'Amie was heart-sore, and I pitied him. 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 412 Heartsore with the cares of wealth. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. xiii. 98 Every word that the dear, good, heart-sore woman spoke, told the tale of her jealousy. 1934 J. G. Van Alphen in C. S. Stokes & B. A. Wilter Veld Trails 17 The heartsore huisvrou [sc. housewife] abstains from eating and keeps out of sight. 1986 P. Conroy Prince of Tides (1987) v. 110 When my mother was sad or heartsore I would blame myself. 2007 Light of Consciousness Spring 47/1 Is it the endless day-after-day that is making you so homesick and heartsore? 2. Relating to or characterized by emotional pain or suffering. Cf. heartsick adj. 2. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 30 With hart-sore sighes. View more context for this quotation 1632 F. Pilkington in E. H. Fellowes Eng. Madrigal Verse (1967) (modernized text) 195 Ye bubbling springs that gentle music makes To lovers' plaints, with heart-sore throbs inmixed. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) xi. 129 The gen'ral..gave her leave, on the next day, Of her friends to go and take farewel; Her mother heart-sore grief did feel. 1826 ‘G. Penseval’ Labours Idleness 78 The words..were uttered with the most heart-sore expression of grief. 1881 Quiver 16 258/1 ‘No more!’ Blessed words, however used in heaven; but sometimes sad, heart-sore words, as they are used here. 1901 A. M. Teskey Where Sugar Maple Grows 252 It was a heart-sore time. 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) iii. 62 We could tell them some stories they haven't heard before and some of them are real heartsore stories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1200adj.1597 |
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