coldheartedness (kold hartednes)

Want of feeling or sensibility. cold-kind (kōld'kind), a. Uniting coldne and kindne . [Rare.] Down he [Winter] descended from his snow-soft chair; But, all unwares, with his cold - kind embrace Unhous'd thy virgin soul from her fair biding-place. Milton, Ode D. F. I. coldly (kōld'li), adv. [ If yow your selues do serue God gladlie and order lie for conscience sake, not coldlie , and somtyme for maner sake, you carie all the Courte with yow. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 68. If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. What you but whisper, I dare speak aloud, Stood the king by; have means to put in act too What you but coldly plot. Fletcher , Double Marriage, i. 1. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. The king looked coldly on Rochester. 2. In a cold state. [Rare.] Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Shak ., Hamlet, i. 2. cold-moving (kold mö" ving), a. Indicating want of cordiality or want of interest; indifferent. [Rare.] With certain half-caps, and cold - moving nods, They froze me into silence. Shak ., T. of A., ii. 2.