dog-hearted
English
Adjective
dog-hearted (comparative more dog-hearted, superlative most dog-hearted)
- Inhuman; cruel.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 3,
- A sovereign shame so elbows him; his own unkindness,
- That stripp’d her from his benediction, turn’d her
- To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights
- To his dog-hearted daughters […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act IV, Scene 3,
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 dog-hearted in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)