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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Peace of mind.
  • noun A small European plant (Viola tricolor) having spurred flowers marked with purple, yellow, and white. It was used to develop hybrid varieties of cultivated pansies.

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  • noun A common European wild flower, Viola tricolor; the wild pansy.

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Examples

  • I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.

    Gardening. Spinningfishwife 2009

  • I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Spinningfishwife 2009

  • I have, also, reason to believe that humble-bees are indispensableto the fertilisation of the heartsease (Violatricolor), for other beesfo not visit this flower.

    The Spectator's take on Darwin, 1882 2009

  • Straying further, my eye was attracted by the sight of some heartsease that peeped through the rocks.

    Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

  • The flowers were familiar, blooms I had known in England: golden and purple heartsease, little blue forget-me-nots.

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

  • The heady floral scent of rose and heartsease, plus the spice of yemonja root.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • The heady floral scent of rose and heartsease, plus the spice of yemonja root.

    Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996

  • Oh, is there any heartsease left, or any rosemary?

    The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman Fay Inchfawn

  • Hadria carried still the drooping yellow heartsease that the little girl had given her.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

  • Little Martha ran up and offered her a wild heartsease which she had found on one of the graves.

    The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

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  • "What infinite heartsease must kings neglect that private men enjoy?" --William Shakespeare, Henry V (unless it's Henry VI...)

    February 5, 2007

  • This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.

    November 11, 2009