Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hard-hearted; unfeeling.

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Examples

  • Here the "something unearthly" that represents Byron's alienating embrace of conflict is imagined as a force for sympathy, one that will sink on the "softened spirits" of his formerly rock-hearted enemies.

    Romantic Anger and Byron 1998

  • Peter Snipe, in his journal, wrote of that silent, subdued throng as other historians have written of the rock-hearted people of Salem, and of the soulful Puritans who grew heartless in the service of the Lord.

    West Wind Drift George Barr McCutcheon 1897

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