Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Giving quiet to the mind.

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Examples

  • And later in the poem he reiterates this sentiment with these lines: And they shall be accounted poet kings/Who simply tell the most heart-easing things.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • It was firm and heart-easing and very hard to have to lose.

    The Fashion in Shrouds Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • And here they gathered and conversed, each in his own vein and from his own impulse, with gracious fancy and lofty vision and heart-easing mirth.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Floating flat like ice floes beneath the greenish moon, or beetling up in prodigious ledges of seeming solidness on a sunny morning -- are they not the most superbly heart-easing miracles of our visible world?

    Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

  • As I looked at the sun sinking behind the blue hills and shedding a wonderfully mellow light over the broad valley, I thought of my own life, in which there had been none to pull a heart-easing string, and the bitterness of those to whom that for which they had fought has been won so late as to be Dead Sea fruit, took possession of me.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • And that morning the sylvan wilds were kept resounding with the heart-easing, blithesome music which bespoke the thankfulness and the gladness of the singer's heart.

    Burl Morrison Heady 1872

  • The rich lyricism of the St. Cecilia Mass with its heart-easing melodies, evocative harmonies, soloists, chorus and romantic orchestral sound, would not be out of place in the opera house.

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  • 109 Or, “I wish I could disclose to you (he added) those heart-easing joys.”

    Hiero 2007

  • And to have in my mind and hands the secret of something as simple but heart-easing as Bach’s Prelude in C is a heady and mysterious power.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • And to have in my mind and hands the secret of something as simple but heart-easing as Bach’s Prelude in C is a heady and mysterious power.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

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