hard-heartedness

See also: hardheartedness

English

Etymology

From hard-hearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

hard-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural hard-heartednesses)

1. Alternative form of hardheartedness
   • 2008, Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, →ISBN, page 56:

     It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times.

   • 1998, John Milton, Roy Flannagan, The Riverside Milton, →ISBN, page 1187:

     For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love?