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brokenheartedness

Definitions

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  • noun The quality of being brokenhearted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

Etymologies

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brokenhearted +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Otherwise, you will be launching a war on “brokenheartedness” and you all will kill off all your spouses.

    Think Progress » NSA Blocking Whistleblower From Telling Committee About Shocking, Illegal Activities 2006

  • But all helpful shepherds must come to a place of brokenheartedness over our own arrogance and sin, if we are to be of any real help to brokenhearted people.

    They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007

  • But all helpful shepherds must come to a place of brokenheartedness over our own arrogance and sin, if we are to be of any real help to brokenhearted people.

    They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2 Lynn Anderson 2007

  • The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be brokenheartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves.

    Islam's War to Save the World Lionheart 2001

  • The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be brokenheartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves.

    Archive 2001-01-01 Lionheart 2001

  • Under Carter's loving hands and melodic reassurances, she gave vent to all her brokenheartedness.

    Breakfast In Bed Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

  • Opinion -- she knew -- would say, that having wilfully chosen a position outside morality she had not half the case for brokenheartedness she would have had if Fort had been her husband: Opinion -- she knew -- would say she had no claim on him, and the sooner an illegal tie was broken, the better!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Opinion -- she knew -- would say, that having wilfully chosen a position outside morality she had not half the case for brokenheartedness she would have had if Fort had been her husband:

    Saint's Progress John Galsworthy 1900

  • I've had a rough time of it, in certain senses, all of my brokenheartedness.

    GoTriad Archives 2010

  • The fidelity he communicated in "I'll Be There," the brokenheartedness in "Maybe Tomorrow," the longing in "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- these were emotions children weren't supposed to have, but did, and Jackson gave them voice.

    unknown title 2009

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