Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

heart-blood

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.89 in modern English

Syllables: heart-blood
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.

Archaic; Literary; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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; […]"
"What we haue done, / our hart bloud shall maintaine."
"We shall not need here to call you to mind about the Massacres that were in Ireland, Paris, Piedmont, and other places: where the godly in the night, before they were well awake, had, some of them, their heart blood running on the ground."
"[…] both his cheeks / Were hot and scarlet as the first live rose / The shepherd’s heart-blood ebbed away into, / The faster for his love."

Etymology

From Middle English herte blood. By surface analysis, heart + blood.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: herte blood

Usage

Inflected Forms

heart's blood (alternative) heartblood (alternative)

Questions

What does heart-blood mean?: Blood needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life; lifeblood.
Where does heart-blood come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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