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hearted

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English herted, hertid; equivalent to heart +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hearted

  1. simple past and past participle of heart

Adjective

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hearted (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified kind or number of heart.
    a hard-hearted woman
    • 2001, Kumuda Reddy, Linda Egenes, Margaret Mullins, For a Blissful Baby:
      It is said that she is "two-hearted," which means that she now has to nourish and fulfill the desires of both her baby and herself.
    • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 15 August 2012:
      Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
  2. Seated or fixed in the heart. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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