Heartstrings

Quick meaning: Heartstrings is a noun meaning The source of one's deepest emotions or inner feelings, especially compassion or love.

Meaning

The source of one's deepest emotions or inner feelings, especially compassion or love.

More Meanings

1. The essential or vital part of something; the core, the essence, the heart.
2. The tendons or other structures resembling cords once thought to be attached to, or to brace, the heart; especially the aorta, pulmonary artery, and other large arteries connected to them; also, the diaphragm.
3. Synonym of chordae tendineae (“the cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart”).

Example Sentences

Harte ſtrynges uenies de cuevr.

The sad eyes of the orphan tugged at my heartstrings.

The midriffe and heart-ſtrings do burn and beat very fearfully, and vvhen this vapour or fume is ſtirred, flyeth upvvard, the heart it ſelf beats, is ſore grieved, and faints, […]

The Ueynes are ſpred foorth throughout the whole bodie, howbeit from one welhead, that is to ſay from the Liuer: ſo be the Sinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewiſe are the Heartſtrings, howbeit from the Heart.

Word Forms

• heartstring
• heart-strings
• heart strings

Synonyms for heartstrings

Depending on context, synonyms include bowels, sum, core, crux, essence, gist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sinew, tendron, heart, endotendon, trabecula, mesotendon.

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