单词 | to pierce one's heart |
释义 | > as lemmasto pierce one's heart 5. transitive. To affect keenly or deeply with emotion (as pain, grief, etc.); to touch or move deeply. Frequently in to pierce one's heart. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)] thirlc1315 piercec1390 thrilla1400 strikec1475 throb1600 penetratea1616 heart-strikea1637 transfix1649 sink1771 shoot1842 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 47 (MED) His deþ most beo to me ful dere And perce [v.r. perche] myn herte for pure pite. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5158 (MED) It miȝt a persid any hert to here how scho wepid. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xix. 88 O lady clere! that perste me at the rote. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv Rude wordes and boystous percen the herte of the herer to the inrest poynte. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 125 Can no prayers pearce thee? View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 194 I care for no man; nor can I be pierced with mens griefs. View more context for this quotation 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 323 While pierc'd with Grief the much-lov'd Youth he view'd. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Nightingale in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 64 Some night-wandering Man, whose heart was pierc'd With the remembrance of a grievous wrong. 1833 Ld. Tennyson Fatima v My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xvi. 148 The people on board and those on the shore crying and lamenting one to another so as to pierce the heart. 1931 V. Woolf Waves 114 Scorn and ridicule pierce me. 1996 San Antonio Express-News (Nexis) 8 July 2 b A beautiful young lady whose tears reflected the emptiness that pierced her heart. < as lemmas |
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