heartsore

noun

1. Heartache, misery, grief.

   countable, rare, uncountable

   They remain as eye-sores, and, I might say, heartsores; for God knows there is misery enough within those wretched portals.

Where it comes from

From heart + sore. Compare Saterland Frisian Haatseer (“heartache”), West Frisian hertsear (“heartache”), Dutch hartzeer (“heartache”), German Low German Hartsehr (“heartache”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry heartsore (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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