heart-spent

English

Adjective

heart-spent (comparative more heart-spent, superlative most heart-spent)

  1. Alternative form of heartspent
    • 1885, Mrs. Frank Leslie, Ellery Sedgwick, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly - Volume 19, page 58:
      So many waves have not the ocean floods, As my rent heart hath torments all the night And heart-spent sighs when Phoebus brings the light.
    • 2004, Opus - Volumes 28-29, page 9:
      ... others played hide and seek with ornaments, or stumbled, heart-spent, over a catch in her throat.
    • 2014, Catherine Kaufman, Beloved Healer, →ISBN:
      Then in a cautious drone, she looked away and began to share her heart-spent regrets.
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