heartspent

English

Alternative forms

• heart-spent

Etymology

heart +‎ spent

Adjective

heartspent (comparative more heartspent, superlative most heartspent)

1. Having experienced the strongest emotion possible.
   • 1962, Herbert David Croly, The New Republic - Volume 148, page 22:

     On and on we crept, two beggars humping toward the moonlit house, and dreamt that spring came full of heartspent hope, a winter deadman shadowing the unthawed pond.

   • 1970, James Whitfield Ellison, Descent, page 18:

     Pretty soon they were in the sack, and that first time, each new time, their lovemaking was a frenzied and violent offering of hope; heartspent like runners at the tape, they flung themselves forward into a faint of reconciliation— body, saliva, sweat, all—all.

   • 1992, Writers forum - Issues 18-20, →ISBN, page 28:

     Until a thunderous crash onto its trivet of fragile bone Tangled and twisted its right foot in a somehow fashion Of limp unwillingness, no longer Sir Francis of Drakedom But a wretched refugiado which might have been earlier a Leander then heartspent, failing the Hellespont of desire