stone-heartedness

English

Etymology

stone-hearted + -ness

Noun

stone-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of stoneheartedness
    • 2014, Vladimir E. Alexandrov, The Garland Companion to Vladimir Nabokov, →ISBN, page 113:
      Some are relatively clear, such as Wilde's visitation at the table-turning séance: Sibyl Vane kills herself because of Dorian Gray's singular stone-heartedness, and the dead author speaks in “garbled French” because he is addressing the supercilious Frenchman;
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