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  • noun Plural form of heartbreaking.

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Examples

  • Finally, he came to me with tears and crocodile -- crocodile heartbreakings, beseeching me not to leave him, not to marry anyone and not to look at any man.

    Morgan: American Financier 1999

  • The gross, jaded, uncouth present has slipped from me as a garment might, and I see the past like a little show, struggles and heartbreakings of long ago, and watch it with the same indifferent curiosity as I would the regulated mimicry of a stage play.

    Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892

  • He still had unexpected heartbreakings to experience.

    His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

  • "There has been a lot of disappointment, and [a] lot of heartbreakings, and [a] lot of people who have gone bust," Bonyadian says.

    News 2012

  • "There has been a lot of disappointment, and [a] lot of heartbreakings, and [a] lot of people who have gone bust," Bonyadian says.

    News 2012

  • "There has been a lot of disappointment, and [a] lot of heartbreakings, and [a] lot of people who have gone bust," Bonyadian says.

    News 2012

  • Meanwhile the coach drove on, and Marcia passed from her childhood’s home into the great world of men and women, changes, heartbreakings, sorrows and joys.

    Marcia Schuyler Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

  • "Their banishment to Holland was fortunate; the decline of their little company in the strange land was fortunate; the difficulties which they experienced in getting the royal consent to banish themselves to this wilderness was fortunate; all the tears and heartbreakings of that ever-memorable parting at Delfthaven had the happiest influence on the rising destinies of New England.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

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