| 单词 |
hard-hearted |
| 释义 |
ˈhard-hearted, a.
[f. hard heart + -ed2.]
Having a hard heart; incapable of being moved to pity or tenderness; unfeeling; unmerciful.
c1205Lay. 11990 Nes næuere na mon iboren..þæt hæleð weore swa stærc Ne swa hærd iheorted. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 7505 Here es no man lyland Swa hard-herted. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. metr. vi. 43 (Camb. MS.) He was so hard hertyd, þat he myhte ben domes man or Iuge of hyr dede beaute. c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 126 Y cowde not wepe, y was so hard hertyd. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 51 Such a..horrible conflicte, that..would have affrighted any man, were he never so hard harted. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 736 Neither can the hard-hearted Rockes breake these yeelding Vessels. 1708Prior Turtle & Sparrow 287 She soon grew sullen; I hard-hearted. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 400 That he might die the same hardhearted, wicked Jeffreys that he had lived.
Hence hardˈheartedly adv.; hardˈheartedness.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. i. 3 Because of their hard-hartednesse and stubbornesse. Ibid. clxxxiv. 1142 Let vs deale not so hardheartedlie. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. 67 The dens..where malice, hardheartedness, and oppression love to dwell. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 186 These are the sort of persons whom so hardheartedly..we see him thus devising plans for getting rid of. 1837Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 270 A hardheartedness produced by the long enjoyment of wealth and power. |
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