Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sad at heart.

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Examples

  • Lambeth artizans and a few poor working-women, who threw sprays of laurel before the hearse -- by that desolate, starving, woe-weary gentleman, shivering in his threadbare clothes, who seemed transfixed with a heart-wrung though silent emotion, ere he hurriedly drew from his sleeve a large white chrysanthemum, and throwing it beneath the coffin as it was lifted inward, disappeared in the crowd, which closed again like the sea upon this lost wandering wave.

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

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