hard-heartedness

See also: hardheartedness

English

Etymology

hard-hearted +‎ -ness

Noun

hard-heartedness (countable and uncountable, plural hard-heartednesses)

  1. Alternative form of hardheartedness
    • 2008, Norton Garfinkle, The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth, →ISBN, page 56:
      It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times.
    • 1998, John Milton, Roy Flannagan, The Riverside Milton, →ISBN, page 1187:
      For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love?
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