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lowhearted

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English

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Etymology

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From low +‎ hearted.

Adjective

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lowhearted (comparative more lowhearted, superlative most lowhearted)

  1. Alternative form of low-hearted
    • 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin, Todd Barton, Margaret Chodos-Irvine, Always Coming Home, →ISBN, page 176:
      She was worried about her daughter, too, and in pain often, and lowhearted.
    • 1982, Moses Hadas, transl., Complete Plays:Sophocles, →ISBN, page 10:
      He straightway broke into bitter lamentations, such as I had never heard from him before, for he had always asserted that such wailing was for craven and lowhearted men.
    • 1838, Joseph Hall, Select pieces: from the practical and devotional writings of the eminently pious and learned Bishop Hall, page 195:
      While therefore we may not be highminded, but fear; so we may not be too lowhearted, in the undervaluing of our condition.