sweetheartedness
sweetheartedness is the alternative form of sweet-heartedness.
Meaning of sweet-heartedness
Noun
sweet-heartedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being sweet-hearted.
- What ails it them though I be soft or hard? / Soft hearts would weep and weep and let men die / For very mercy and sweet-heartedness; / I that weep little for my pity’s sake, / I have the grace to save men.1865, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Chastelard; a Tragedy, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, Act IV (Murray), scene iv, pages 162–163
Origin of sweetheartedness
From sweethearted + -ness.
Questions about sweetheartedness
- What is sweetheartedness the alternative form of?
- Sweetheartedness is the alternative form of sweet-heartedness.
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