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heartstrings Definition

heart·strings (härt′striŋz′)

deepest feelings or affections

Etymology: orig. tendons or nerves formerly believed to brace the heart

heartstrings Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • woman: Not only have shows been known to refresh the heartstrings of many women, but rumor is they might also include tight leather trousers.

Converse of object

  • pull: Call me crudely oiled, but commerce is pulling the heartstrings, with a penny saved for casual sex.
  • tug: The emotive When I Close My Eyes tugs the heartstrings with the sorrowful line " boy it never ends.
  • pluck: It plucks the right heartstrings, has an uplifting message, and appeals to just about every known demographic.
  • refresh: Not only have shows been known to refresh the heartstrings of many women, but rumor is they might also include tight leather trousers.
  • touch: Poor ole Pizzonia, touched the heartstrings I can tell you.
heartstrings Quotes

  Yield, ladies, yield to love, ladies, which lurketh under your eyelids whilst you sleep and playeth with your heartstrings whilst you wake, whose sweetness never breedeth satiety, labour weariness, nor grief bitterness.

—Lyly,John

   The feelings withwhichwe facethisnewage of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercyare reconciled, and the judge and the brother are one.

—Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow

Browse dictionary entries near heartstrings

  1. ‹ heartsome
  2. ‹ heartsick
  3. ‹ heartsease
  4. ‹ heartless
  5. ‹ heartland
  6. ‹ heartiness
  7. ‹ heartily
  8. ‹ hearthstone
  9. ‹ hearthside
  10. ‹ hearth
  1. heartthrob ›
  2. heartwarming ›
  3. heartwood ›
  4. heartworm ›
  5. hearty ›
  6. heat ›
  7. heat barrier ›
  8. heat capacity ›
  9. heat engine ›
  10. heat exchanger ›