free-hearted
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of free-hearted
First recorded in 1350–1400, free-hearted is from Middle English free herted. See free, hearted
Example Sentences
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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
But there, also, little was known of his father, only that the peasants on the estate remembered him lovingly as a free-hearted gentleman.
From The Eye of Dread by Payne Erskine
Elvesdon noticed that her laugh was light, open, free-hearted.
From The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising by Bertram Mitford
You would be telling her, all so silently, that though her home is far away, she has her place among you; that kindness and warmth and free-hearted hospitality one finds the wide world over.
From One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard
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
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