Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
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Examples
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For I fear nothing more, than that many ministers, who preach well, will be found but imperfectly qualified for this work, especially to manage it with old, ignorant, dead-hearted sinners.
The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974
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Is there a dead-hearted woman in all God's beautiful world, I wonder, who would not weep again, if she could, over life's yellowing symbols
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exclaimed he, thou conceivest, dead-hearted worldling, that thou canst be a friend?
Chapter XI. Book III 1917
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We give ourselves license to react to fictional particulars, if only to assure ourselves that our day-in-day-out distance from general realities doesn’t make us dead-hearted people who walk around smothered in an emotional Snuggie.
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When it teakes your honour, you’re all heat, and fire, and fury, Lord bless us! but when it catches poor Tim, he’s cold and dead-hearted, he sheakes and shivers like an aspen leaf, that he does.”
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For months after Elizabeth’s funeral, the dead-hearted house sat empty, adrift in wild grass and packed with the cargo of four lifetimes.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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For months after Elizabeth’s funeral, the dead-hearted house sat empty, adrift in wild grass and packed with the cargo of four lifetimes.
CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988
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His fire wakes kindred fire ... why must we leave the business of teaching to the corpse-minded, the dead-hearted? like so many of our professors and teachers!”
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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His fire wakes kindred fire ... why must we leave the business of teaching to the corpse-minded, the dead-hearted? like so many of our professors and teachers! "
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Lord bless us! but when it catches poor Tim, he's cold and dead-hearted, he sheakes and shivers like an aspen leaf, that he does. "
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves Tobias George Smollett 1746
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