seared
Speech parts
1. seared - Adjective
2. seared - Verb
4. seared - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Sear
Scorched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood.
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.