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heartbalm

heartbalm 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 heartbalm

pluralheartbalms

Questions about heartbalm

What is heartbalm the alternative spelling of?
Heartbalm is the alternative spelling of heart balm.

Words near heartbalm in the dictionary

  1. heartachingly
  2. heartachy
  3. heartake
  4. heartakes
  5. heartattack
  6. heartbalm
  7. heartbalms
  8. heartbeat
  9. heartbeat bill
  10. heartbeat bills
  11. heartbeat law

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