dog-hearted

English

Adjective

dog-hearted (comparative more dog-hearted, superlative most dog-hearted)

  1. 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 […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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