Meaning of heart balm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that soothes a person's fears or emotions.
   countable, idiomatic, uncountable
2. A fine for a breach of promise (to marry).
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“So many things, however, are a genuine heartbalm like the prickles of the Pleiades rising on the night.”

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