Definition of "heart-sickness" [heart-sickness]

• Sadness of heart; depression of spirits. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""These intertwined, silken stories deftly expose the heart-sickness behind so many of the burnished surfaces of contemporary life," John Banville."
• "But now for many days there has been pain and grief and heart-sickness hour by hour; and every hour have I dreaded the coming of the next hour, till I know not how to bear it."
• "He was on the verge of one of those maladies for which medicine has no name, and of which the seat is in some degree variable, like the nervous system itself, the part most frequently attacked of the whole human machine, a malady which may be designated as the heart-sickness of the unfortunate."