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Webster 1913 Edition


Dead-hearted

Dead′-heartˊed

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Adj.
Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
Dead′-heartˊed-ness
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Noun.
Bp. Hall.

Definition 2024


dead-hearted

dead-hearted

See also: deadhearted

English

Adjective

dead-hearted (comparative more dead-hearted, superlative most dead-hearted)

  1. Alternative form of deadhearted
    • 1981, David G. Sweet, & ‎Gary B. Nash, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, ISBN 0520045017, page 125:
      An eighteenth-century planter in Virginia complained: "My people seem to be quite dead-hearted and either cannot or will not work."