homefelt
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]home + felt, i.e. felt in one's own breast.
Adjective
[edit]homefelt (comparative more homefelt, superlative most homefelt)
- (poetic, obsolete) inward; private
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
- Such a sacred and home-felt delight.