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Heartsease

noun

A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived. Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy.

Violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet. Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata.

Common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers. Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis.

The absence of mental stress or anxiety. Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity.

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"Heartsease" Quotes from Famous Books

... too sure," said the beetle solidly. "You've a nice velvety softness about you, and then you have the best name of them all. What sick person wouldn't like to have Heartsease?" ...

— Soap-Bubble Stories - For Children • Fanny Barry

... the master began mechanically to look over the desks for forgotten or mislaid articles, and to rearrange the pupils' books and copies. A few heartsease gathered by the devoted Octavia Dean, neatly tied with a black thread and regularly left in the inkstand cavity of Rupert's desk, were still lying on the floor where they had been always hurled with equal regularity by that disdainful Adonis. Picking up ...

— Cressy • Bret Harte