Definitions
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- noun The state or quality of being
heartbroken .
Etymologies
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heartbroken + -ness
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Examples
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Yet for all his macho taciturnity, he is a damaged man who can never escape what Fuller calls "the extended heartbrokenness of war."
War Wounds 2008
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Yet for all his macho taciturnity, he is a damaged man who can never escape what Fuller calls "the extended heartbrokenness of war."
War Wounds 2008
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What remains with me most are his straightforward recounting of the strategic thinking i.e., hoping and guessing that has Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, treat the people of Lebanon as disposable collateral, and his heartbrokenness over the way Israel, unchecked, is now following the United States in squandering the goodwill which could be its best defense.
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