heart-ache (countable anduncountable,pluralheart-aches)

1. Archaic form ofheartache.
   • 1863,J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Showing how Some of the Feuds in Chapelizod Waxed Fiercer, and Others Were Solemnly Condoned”, inThe House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London:Tinsley, Brothers, […],→OCLC,pages23–24:

     So Dangerfield’s little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of theheart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to.

   • 1900 April,L[yman] Frank Baum, “Introduction”, inThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.:Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., published17 May 1900,→OCLC:

     It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and theheart-aches and nightmares are left out.

   • 1931,Emma Goldman,Living My Life, New York, N.Y.:Alfred A. Knopf, published1934,page316:

     Every day brought more disappointment andheart-ache.

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