▪ I. heart-burning, n.
(ˈhɑːtbɜːnɪŋ)
[f. heart n. + burning vbl. n.]
1. A heated and embittered state of mind, which is felt but not openly expressed; jealousy or discontent rankling in the heart; grudge.
| 1513 More Rich. III, Wks. 38/1 A long continued grudge and hearte brennynge betwene the Quenes kinred and the kinges blood. 1661 Marvell Corr. xxxii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 76 Lest there should be any new feud or hart-burning occasiond thereby. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 107 Which outrages occasioned as much vexation and heart-burning as does the modern right of search on the high seas. |
b. pl. Feelings of this description; grudges.
| 1605 2 Vnnat. & Bloodie Murthers (Collier) 31 Their seuerall seruants could not agree one with another, but would expresse their heart-burnings. 1768 Boswell Corsica ii. (ed. 2), 120 There was nothing but heart-burnings, and miserable dissensions. 1874 Burnand My Time iii. 23, I was manager of a theatre where there were neither heart-burnings nor jealousies. |
† 2. = heartburn n. 2. Obs.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Azedia, sharpnes, sowernes of stomack, hartburning. 1635 Swan Spec. M. vi. §4 (1643) 262 Lettice..cooleth a hot stomach called heart-burning. 1747 Wesley Prim. Physic (1762) 74 The Heart Burning, a sharp gnawing Pain at the Orifice of the Stomach. |
| attrib. 1607 Topsell Serpents (1658) 749 The hearts of them that die of the heart-burning disease. |
▪ II. ˈheart-burning, ppl. a.
[f. heart n. + burning ppl. a.]
That inflames, kindles, or consumes the heart; distressing the heart.
| 1588 Shakes. L. L. L. i. i. 280 Thine in all complements of deuoted and heart-burning heat of dutie. 1590 Spenser F. Q. ii. vii. 22 Disloyall Treason, and hart-burning Hate. 1821 Byron Juan v. xxiv, Swallowing a heart-burning sigh. |