a. [f. cold heart + -EN2.] Wanting in sensibility, cordiality, or natural affection; unfeeling; unkind.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. xiii. 158. Cold-hearted toward me?

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1742.  Young, Nt. Th., IV. 638. O ye cold-hearted, frozen Formalists!

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 151. The coldhearted and scoffing Grammont.

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1878.  Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. I. Carlyle, 188. The mechanical, prosaic, utilitarian, cold-hearted character of Wilhelm Meister.

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  Hence Cold-heartedly adv.; Cold-heartedness.

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1850.  B. Taylor, Eldorado, I. iv. 37. Their self-pity will change to indignation at your cold-heartedness.

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