a. a. Lacking fortitude, faint-hearted. b. Tender-hearted, soft-hearted.
a. 1549. Bk. Com. Prayer, Letany, 123. To comfort and helpe the weake hearted.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., III. ii. 390. My Weake-hearted Enemies.
1794. Gaz. of the U.S., 16 May, 3/1. Does not our conduct resemble that of a weak hearted father taking off a blister from his sick child…?
b. 1841. Lost Brooch, II. xvi. 114. ‘I am not,’ said she, ‘one of those soft weak-hearted persons, who think that religion consists in nothing but what they call kindness and forgiveness.
