hard-heartedness
See also: hardheartedness
English
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edithard-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural hard-heartednesses)
- Alternative form of hardheartedness
- 2008, Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, →ISBN, page 56:
- It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times.
- 1998, John Milton, Roy Flannagan, The Riverside Milton, →ISBN, page 1187:
- For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love?