heartsore
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Sore or grieved at heart.
- adjective Proceeding from a sore or grieved heart.
- noun Soreness of the heart; grief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adjective heartsick
Examples
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When the prosecutor outlines and demands that she confirm her act, she utters one phrase, "Yes, because I was heartsore."
Yvette Christiansë talks about the background to her novel, Unconfessed
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He was as numb and heartsore as Daraiel was angry.
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I was heartsore from the loss of my littermates and my mother, and angry at the way the entire pack had treated me.
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I see them now -- my darling sons, my fierce daughter -- heartsore and vulnerable at the news of my untimely and possibly heroic death.
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She also gets to sing the best song of the evening, "So the Old Dog Has Come Home," the heartsore lament of a long-suffering spouse:
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And as he could both see and feel, she was deeply hurt — terribly and painfully hurt — heartsore and jealous; and at once, although his first impulse was to grow angry and defiant again, his mood as suddenly softened.
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Had Melanie not been so faint, so sick, so heartsore, she would have collapsed at his question.
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Raadzaal, the legislature's seat, had a beautiful history and he was heartsore at the removal of the old coat-of-arms and other historic items from the building.
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Although he was tired, heartsore, and uncertain of many things, of that much he was sure.
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Although he was tired, heartsore, and uncertain of many things, of that much he was sure.
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Any scandal given to little ones gave him so much affliction and heartsore, that he often might have died of it, if God had not supported him by interior consolations.
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They were moving to and fro with less inclination to study, or, possibly, to listen to the word of life, than in the days when plenty of hard work left them weary in frame, but not heartsore.
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So the family had no idea how heartsore and troubled the girl really was over the mystery.
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The matter was not one about which I cared to speak just then, for I felt very sad and heartsore.
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But it came at last -- the fair and gracious morning of another day came to Rotha even as it always has come to the weary watcher, even as it always will come to the heartsore and heavy-laden, however long and black the night.
Note
The word 'heartsore' is a compound of 'heart' and 'sore'.
