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heartstrings Definition


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heartstrings
plural noun
    1. often facetious
      Deepest feelings of love, sympathy or pity.
      Example: The music tugged at her heartstrings
Etymology: 15c: from old notions of anatomy, in which the tendons or nerves were thought to support the heart.



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