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Synonyms for bleeding heart

Grammar : Noun

Définition of bleeding heart

Origin :
  • type of flowering plant, so called from 1690s. In the sense of "person excessively sympathetic" (especially toward those the speaker deems not to deserve it) is attested by 1951, but said by many to have been popularized with reference to liberals (especially Eleanor Roosevelt) in 1930s by newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), though quotations are wanting; bleeding in a figurative sense of "generous" is from late 16c., and the notion of one's heart bleeding as a figure of emotional anguish is from late 14c., but the exact image here may be the "bleeding heart of Jesus."
  • noun sympathetic person
Example sentences :
  • Somehow or other, this was the general misfortune of Bleeding Heart Yard.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • They began their perquisitions in Bleeding Heart Yard that same forenoon.
  • Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
  • I see you coming back to us within a year with a broken and bleeding heart.
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • “Oh, never mind your bleeding heart, Bunting,” said Baringstoke.
  • Extract from : « Marge Askinforit » by Barry Pain
  • I only came because I wanted to pour balm, not hope, into your bleeding heart.
  • Extract from : « As We Sweep Through The Deep » by Gordon Stables
  • None knew who he was, but the bleeding heart of him who had once been his friend.
  • Extract from : « The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 4 (of 4) » by Jane Porter
  • The poor, bleeding heart brought not a single moan to the lips.
  • Extract from : « History of the Donner Party » by C.F. McGlashan
  • Was she a wanderer and an outcast, with a bleeding heart and a blighted name?
  • Extract from : « Heroines of the Crusades » by C. A. Bloss
  • The bleeding heart was the cognizance of the Douglas family.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of the Lake » by Sir Walter Scott
  • Flowers like those of the bleeding heart and other dicentras.
  • Extract from : « The Practical Garden-Book » by C. E. Hunn

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