/ · 1894 Brewer’s · A · Aching Void (An)
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That desolation of heart which arises from the recollection of some cherished endearment no longer possessed.
“What peaceful hours I once enjoyed!
How sweet their memory still!
But they have left an aching void
The world can never fill.”
Cowper: Walking with God.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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