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hard-heartednesses

hard-heartednesses

See also: hardheartednesses

English

Noun

hard-heartednesses

  1. plural of hard-heartedness
    • 1961, Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28 - July 14, 1888), page 142:
      He spoke last night of the great social whirl—of “the porcelains, chinas, hangings, laces, fine dinners, equipages, balls, shows, hypocrisies, hard-heartednesses that make it up,” arguing: “I hate it—hate it with my body and with the rest of me