What is "heartsore"

Usage examples of "heartsore".

Crisp in his surcoat cut of silk, Lord Diegan regarded the town delegate in shaken, heartsore humility.

I took the poor fellow back to Fellside last March, bruised and broken by your cruel treatment, heartsore and depressed.

He had failed in a more subtle ambition, and for the moment he was heartsore and disillusionised, and not disinclined to take a certain cynical pleasure in observing and labelling his fellow wanderers as they went their ways in the dark stretches between the lamp-lights.