heartquake

noun

heartquake

noun

Etymology From heart + quake.

1

Figuratively Trembling of the heart or emotions; trepidation; fear.

in many an hour of danger and heart-quake1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introductory”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

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