What does heart-ache mean?

heart-ache

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

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noun

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

"So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to."
"It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out."
"Every day brought more disappointment and heart-ache."

heart-aches (plural)

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