heartdeep

English

Etymology

heart +‎ deep

Adjective

heartdeep (comparative more heartdeep, superlative most heartdeep)

  1. (poetic) Rooted in the heart.
    • [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC:
      the auditors may plainly perceive that every word is heart-deep

References

“heartdeep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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