ˈheavy-ˈladen, a.
1. Laden or loaded heavily; bearing a heavy burden. Also fig.
| c 1440 Jacob's Well xxxvii. (E.E.T.S.) 236 Þou art full of fruyte of vertuys, heuy ladyn wyth gode werkys. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 287 No toiling Teams from Harvest-labour come So late at Night, so heavy laden home. 1784 Cowper Task i. 242 He dips his bowl into the weedy ditch, And heavy-laden brings his bev'rage home. 1859 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 13 One of Pickford's heavy⁓laden vans. |
2. Weighed down with trouble, weariness, etc.; oppressed.
| 1611 Bible Matt. xi. 28 Come vnto mee all ye that labour, and are heauie laden. 1871 Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 47, I was sickly of body and mind, felt heavy-laden, and without any hope. |
Hence heavy-ˈladenness.
| 1877 A. Edersheim in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxxvii. 3 The cure of weariness, and the relief of heavy-ladenness, lies in this—to take the cross upon ourselves. |