heartstruck
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]heartstruck (comparative more heartstruck, superlative most heartstruck)
- Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- His heart-strooeke iniuries
- Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken.
- 1674, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 293, lines 263–265:
- He added not, for Adam at the newes / Heart-ſtrook with chilling gripe of ſorrow ſtood, / That all his ſenſes bound [...]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heartstruck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)