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Definition of Heartrending
1. Adjective. Causing or marked by grief or anguish. "The heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
Definition of Heartrending
1. a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Definition of Heartrending
1. Adjective. That causes great grief, anguish or distress ¹
2. Adjective. That elicits deep sympathy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heartrending
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heartrending
1. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartrending
Literary usage of Heartrending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier (1884)
"heartrending Scenes.—Estimated Total Loss.—Help from all Quarters.—Work of
Reconstruction.—Second Fire.— Its Public Buildings, Educational and Charitable ..."
2. San Francisco's Great Disaster: A Full Account of the Recent Terrible by Sydney Tyler, Ralph Stockman Tarr (1906)
"SURVIVORS TELL heartrending TALES. Fully 450000 persons were in San Francisco on
the morning of April 18, when the earthquake marked the opening of one of ..."
3. The Court of the Tuileries from the Restoration to the Flight of Louis Philippe by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1897)
"A heartrending Scene. — " Jeanne d'Arc." — Thalia and Melpomene. — The Royalist
Actress. — Rehearsing a Love Scene. — A Doubtful Compliment. ..."
4. John Bull and His Island by Max O'Rell (1884)
"The Town—The Parks—The Streets—heartrending Sights—Drunkenness—More Sandwiches—Other
remunerative Employments—Flourishing Business—The Language of the ..."
5. In the Days of the Red River Rebellion: Life and Adventure in the Far West by John McDougall (1903)
"... feast—Wolseley crushes rebellion—Terrible ravages of smallpox—heartrending
scenes—The writer's attack and cure—Awful mortality among French half-breeds. ..."
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