a. Having a broken heart; heart-broken; having the spirits crushed by grief or despair. See BREAK v. 7 c and BROKEN 6.
1526. Tindale, Luke iv. 18. To heale the broken harted.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. x. 221. You tell men that they must not come to Christ, till they are broken-hearted.
1685. Roxburgh Ball. (1886), VI. 121. Say, ‘the poor Shepherd he dy’s broken-hearted.’
1791. Burns, ‘Ae fond kiss,’ iv. Had we … Never met, or never parted, We had ne’er been broken-hearted.
1814. Scott, Wav., xii. He returned from college hopeless and broken-hearted, and fell into a decline.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 652. The broken-hearted widows and destitute orphans.
Hence Broken-heartedly adv., Broken-heartedness.
1678. Manton, 20 Serm., i. Wks. 1871, II. 178. We ought … humbly and broken-heartedly to … accept of the grace.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 98. Their chagrin and broken heartedness at the loss of their lands.
1882. J. Parker, Apost. Life (1884), III. 136. He who would preach to the times must preach to the broken-heartedness of the day.
