heartsong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.36 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The expression of a person's inner essence, underlying identity, and reason for existence.
Example Sentences
- "How the crest-hunting rich and the wealth-seeking wearers of inherited honors and the popularity-seeking and place-hunting politicians whom their promoters half satirically style “great” dwindle when compared with this man, who with a few simple little heartsongs had won the love of children, had found a place in the hearts of those who mourn and hand entered the home and made it the happier and better for his presence!"
- "Many of his lyrics are heartsongs that will chord with human life as long as it has sorrows and aspirations."
- "“Home, Sweet Home” has been sung by the world's Greatest Artists for the Viotrola; after the class has heard the story of "the Homeless Bard of Home” it may sing this famous heartsong with the band accompaniment on Victor Record 18145."
- "With hymning we will praise Thee, Our heartsong we lift up to Thee, Thou glorious evermore;"
- "So we, when our Great High Priest shall come, Begirt of power, enrobed of state, And the peoples of ten thousand isles With eager joy His advent wait, Shall hail, with a heartsong of rapture, His step on our sin-furrowed strand ; Shall march, with the grand triumphal throng, In the glow of a God-lit land."
- "Over life's long trail a-winding, We wend our onward way, Sometimes with spirits broken, Sometimes with heartsongs gay."