broken-hearted, a.
(ˈbrəʊk(ə)nˈhɑːtɪd)
Having a broken heart; heart-broken; having the spirits crushed by grief or despair. See break v. 7 c and broken 6.
| 1526 Tindale Luke iv. 18 To heale the broken harted. 1675 Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. x. 221 You tell men that they must not come to Christ, till they are broken-hearted. 1685 Roxburgh Ball. (1886) VI. 121 Say, ‘the poor Shepherd he dy's broken-hearted’. 1791 Burns ‘Ae fond kiss’ iv, Had we..Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 1814 Scott Wav. xii, He returned from college hopeless and broken-hearted, and fell into a decline. 1848 Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 652 The broken-hearted widows and destitute orphans. |
Hence broken-ˈheartedly adv., broken-ˈheartedness.
| 1678 Manton 20 Serm. i. Wks. 1871 II. 178 We ought..humbly and broken-heartedly to..accept of the grace. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 98 Their chagrin and broken heartedness at the loss of their lands. 1882 J. Parker Apost. Life (1884) III. 136 He who would preach to the times must preach to the broken-heartedness of the day. |