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Webster 1913 Edition
Dead-hearted
Dead′-heartˊed
,Adj.
Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
– Dead′-heartˊed-ness
, Noun.
Bp. Hall.
Definition 2024
dead-hearted
dead-hearted
See also: deadhearted
English
Adjective
dead-hearted (comparative more dead-hearted, superlative most dead-hearted)
- 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."
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