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Bleeding heart

noun

Garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers. Synonyms: Dicentra spectabilis, lyre-flower, lyreflower.

Someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged.

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... the moon was sensible of the prayer of Medoro, the cloud broke away, and the moonlight burst forth as bright as day. The rays seemed especially to gild the spot where lay the body of Prince Dardinel; and Medoro, bathed in tears and with bleeding heart, recognized him by the quarterings of red ...

— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch

... with anguish wild Kneels and implores that her darling child Shall not be torn from her bleeding heart, With its quivering tendrils rent apart. The father may soothe his child to sleep, And watch his slumbers calm and deep. No tyrant's tread will disturb his rest Where freedom ...

— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper

... enemy of mine My bleeding heart hath had its wound; And to increase the pain I'm bound To suffer ...

— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

... And pours the ruddy wine betwixt her horns; And, while the priests with pray'r the gods invoke, She feeds their altars with Sabaean smoke, With hourly care the sacrifice renews, And anxiously the panting entrails views. What priestly rites, alas! what pious art, What vows avail to cure a bleeding heart! A gentle fire she feeds within her veins, Where the soft god secure in ...

— The Aeneid • Virgil

... that her assurance did not wholly reassure that bleeding heart, and to turn Nathan's thoughts to other things she slipped one hand through his arm, and picking up the milk pails from the bench at her side with the other, said ...

— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger

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