broken-heartedness

See also: brokenheartedness

English

Etymology

broken-hearted +‎ -ness

Noun

broken-heartedness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of brokenheartedness
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     It is the only hope of my broken-heartedness, and a rather faint one.

   • 2009, Johanna Shapiro, The Inner World of Medical Students: Listening to Their Voices in Poetry, →ISBN, page 236:

     The poem uses the metaphor of putting his “heart on a fork,” and anticipates that the process necessarily leads to broken-heartedness and tears.

   • 2013, Alec Ryrie, Being Protestant in Reformation Britain, →ISBN, page 26:

     Pain is better than numbness, and broken-heartedness better than stony-heartedness, as surely as it is better to be alive than dead.