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heart-balm

heart-balm is the alternative spelling of heart balm.

Meaning of heart balm

Noun

heart balm (countable and uncountable, plural heart balms)

  1. (idiomatic) Something that soothes a person's fears or emotions.
    • So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 211
  2. A fine for a breach of promise (to marry).

Forms of heart-balm

pluralheart-balms

Questions about heart-balm

What is heart-balm the alternative spelling of?
Heart-balm is the alternative spelling of heart balm.

Words near heart-balm in the dictionary

  1. heart's ease
  2. heart's-ease
  3. heart-ache
  4. heart-aches
  5. heart-attack
  6. heart-balm
  7. heart-balms
  8. heart-blood
  9. heart-breaking
  10. heart-breakingly
  11. heart-breakingness

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