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heartblood

heartblood is the alternative form of heart-blood.

Meaning of heart-blood

Noun

heart-blood (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.
    • […] I am not your king / Till I be crown’d and that my sword be stain’d / With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster; […]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about heartblood

What is heartblood the alternative form of?
Heartblood is the alternative form of heart-blood.

Words near heartblood in the dictionary

  1. heartbeat law
  2. heartbeat laws
  3. heartbeatlike
  4. heartbeats
  5. Heartbleed
  6. heartblood
  7. heartbond
  8. heartbonds
  9. heartbreak
  10. heartbreak grass
  11. Heartbreak Hotel

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