heartdeep
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
heartdeep (comparative more heartdeep, superlative most heartdeep)
- (poetic) Rooted in the heart.
- [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC:
- the auditors may plainly perceive that every word is heart-deep
References edit
“heartdeep”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.