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Definition of Heartrendingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartrendingly
Literary usage of Heartrendingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Work of St. Paul by Frederic William Farrar (1902)
"... sorrow in those eyes, of which one glance broke the repentant heart of
Peter—would have recurred so often and so heartrendingly to Paul's remembrance, ..."
2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1895)
"... no little time to endeavoring to master the grammar of Japanese, which is of
all languages perhaps the most hopelessly and heartrendingly difficult. ..."
3. Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1895)
"His fancy fed eagerly on stories of Draugen, the terrible sea- bogie who yells
heartrendingly in the storm, and the sight of whom means death ..."
4. Tommy Cornstalk: Being Some Account of the Less Notable Features of the by John Henry Macartney Abbott (1902)
"But it is cruel—bitterly, heartrendingly cruel! It is not only in the gutted
dwellings that you will see the cruelty and horror of it all . ..."
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