false-heartedness

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English

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Etymology

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From false-hearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

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false-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of falseheartedness
    • 2009, Jacob Abbott, History of Elizabeth, Queen of England, →ISBN, page 192:
      Mankind have not, in their estimate of Elizabeth's character, condemned so decidedly the substantial acts which she performed, as the duplicity, the false-heartedness, and the false pretensions which she manifested in performing them.