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Definition of Take to heart
1. Verb. Get down to; pay attention to; take seriously. "Attend to your duties, please"
Definition of Take to heart
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To take something seriously; to internalize or live according to something (e.g. advice.) ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To feel keenly; be greatly grieved at; be much affected by something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take To Heart
Literary usage of Take to heart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by National Baptist Educational Convention (1872)
"If we would only, as friends of education, take to heart these words and appropriate
to ourselves what we have listened to, and try, really, sincerely, ..."
2. The Christian's Great Interest: In Two Parts, I. The Trial of a Saving by William Guthrie (1815)
"... and Iris hazard thereby, and he must take to heart s offer of pardon and peace
through Christ Jesus, and heartily close with God's offer, ..."
3. Immortality, a Study of Belief, and Earlier Addresses by William Newton Clarke (1920)
"Some day we shall take to heart what it would be for Christians to live in all
the relations of life in the genuine spirit of Jesus, to help others to do ..."
4. Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England by Frederic William Maitland (1897)
"... but there is the more reason why we should take to heart those warnings that
it already gives us, because what we can read of hides is to be found for ..."
5. The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland: Containing a Supplement of the by John Row, William Row (1842)
"... of this Kirk all the dayes of their life, vnder the paine of endles condemnation
in that great day of the Lord. And let the King take to heart ..."
6. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1917)
"To offset this advantage it is necessary for us to take to heart the lessons
taught, and to devise some scheme whereby we can use effectively our own ..."
7. The Mission of the Comforter & Other Sermons with Notes by Julius Charles Hare (1846)
"to take to heart. Assuredly it is only from this cause, our having become too
bad for many a belief and superstition, that our age has found it so easy to ..."
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