heartquake

English

Etymology

Noun

heartquake (plural heartquakes)

Trembling of the heart; trepidation; fear.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  in many an hour of danger and heartquake

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for heartquake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

earthquake

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