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
If what father believes is true, and it looks quite rational, we praise God most, when we are most like him, and are faithful and free-hearted to his children.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg
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 Erskine, Payne
There’s something in a noble boy, A brave, free-hearted, careless one; With his uncheck’d, unbidden joy, His dread of books and love of fun.
From Holiday House A Series of Tales by Sinclair, Catherine
He was still amiable and uncomplaining; but his elasticity, his free-hearted joyousness was gone.
From A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren by Charless, Charlotte Taylor Blow
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