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Dead Heart

noun

  1. the Dead Heart
    the remote interior of Australia
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Dead Heart1

C20: from the title The Dead Heart of Australia (1906) by J. W. Gregory (1864–1932), British geologist
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“We’ve got the richness of emptiness which for some reason was known as the dead heart,” Mr. Olsen said in 2016 at the opening of a major retrospective of his six-decade career.

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That path uses cutting-edge gene editing to replace dead heart cells with new ones engineered to reduce arrhythmias.

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Jaíne feels it, and I guess my cold dead heart still does as well.

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I'm nearly 50 years old, with a cold, dead heart, but that kitchen still gets me.

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It was the Egyptian belief that after a person died, Anubis, the jackal-headed god of embalming, led the deceased to the judgment hall of Osiris, where the dead heart was weighed against a feather of Maat, the personification of truth, justice and the cosmic order.

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