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soul-ache

soul-ache is the alternative form of soulache.

Meaning of soulache

Noun

soulache (usually uncountable, plural soulaches)

  1. (dated, poetic, usually) A deep, foundational sense of despair, hopelessness, or anguish, often so extreme as to be debilitating to those afflicted by it.
    • “Sure,” said Bridget; “and when you feel a soul-ache, it shows you've been doing wrong, and it hurts you; […]”1874, Helen Cross Knight, chapter IV, in Kitty King; or, Chapters for children, page 31

Questions about soul-ache

What is soul-ache the alternative form of?
Soul-ache is the alternative form of soulache.

Words near soul-ache in the dictionary

  1. soul sister
  2. soul sisters
  3. soul sleep
  4. soul tie
  5. soul ties
  6. soul-ache
  7. soul-ale
  8. soul-ales
  9. soul-blues
  10. soul-cake
  11. soul-cakes

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