单词 | heartspring |
释义 | > as lemmasheartspring heartspring n. (a) (chiefly poetic and literary) the spring or source of a person's innermost feelings, thoughts, etc. (chiefly in plural); (b) something regarded as the essential source of a concept, impulse, activity, etc. (cf. wellspring n. 2). ΚΠ 1658 C. Gilbert Soveraign Antidote 138 He opens their heart-springs with a special Key of his own framing. 1815 R. Polwhele Fair Isabel iii. 184 Cold distrust did every heartspring freeze. 1841 Court Gaz. 26 June 425/1 We prize her..for..that heart-spring of poetry which gives form and substance to the ‘airy nothings’ of the imagination. 1843 J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet 113 He..gazed..till his heart-springs brak loose, Then, 'mid tears,..He told you some tale o't. 1903 B. Harraden Kathleen Frensham xviii. 278 She, with..perseverance, dug a hole in their frozen heart-springs. 1937 Yearbk. Central Conf. Amer. Rabbis 47 393 His language..flows purely from the heart-springs of the most original of our poets. 1976 Compar. Educ. 12 21 Socialist humanism, the heartspring of communist morality. 2003 W. W. H. Lamb in R. E. Groenhout & M. Bower Philos., Feminism, & Faith iii. 71 Victimhood..becomes the heartspring of dissembling thoughts and manipulative actions. < as lemmas |
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