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Word Meanings - FEEBLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a feeble manner. The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart. Macaulay.

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  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • CHURCHLIKE
    Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • RESTORATIVELY
    In a restorative manner.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • CHURCH
    AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
  • CHURCHYARD
    The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
  • CHURCH-BENCH
    A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
  • HEARTEN
    1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
  • CHURCH MODES
    The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
  • HEARTDEEP
    Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
  • HEARTENER
    One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
  • RESTORATORY
    Restorative.
  • CHURCHSHIP
    State of being a church. South.
  • FEEBLENESS
    The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • CHURCHMANLY
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
  • HEART-ROBBING
    1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • PIGEON-HEARTED
    Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • DISHEARTENMENT
    Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
  • KIND-HEARTED
    Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
  • DOUBLEHEARTED
    Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

 

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