free-hearted
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of free-hearted
First recorded in 1350–1400, free-hearted is from Middle English free herted. See free, hearted
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Since Heine was a Jew and passionately self-conscious about it, the uncertainty of the atmosphere led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns suspicious and open-spirited, free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive.
From Time Magazine Archive
I deny it——My mother was a good, generous, free-hearted woman, and I can't tell how far her goodnature might have extended for the good of her children.
From The Beaux-Stratagem A comedy in five acts by George Farquhar
The French ambassador narrowly watched his actions, but James was the same free-hearted, jovial, pleasure-seeking monarch he had always been.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
And so when the question, ‘How much owest thou unto my Lord?’ is applied to this particularly pleasant gift, it is not met with the loyal, free-hearted, happy response, ‘All! yes, all for Jesus!’
From Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal
Tessibel was a child again, a happy, free-hearted child.
From Tess of the Storm Country by Grace Miller White
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