free-hearted
adjective
light-hearted; spontaneous; frank; generous.
free-heartedness
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a word derived from
free-hearted.
Example Sentences
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He knew that in preaching they wanted noise, emotion, and fire; that in the preacher they wanted free-heartedness and cordiality.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar
I mean in his confidence in men, and his free-heartedness, giving away what he has.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee
When he spoke, his manner had lost the free-heartedness of a little while before; there was a slight diffidence in it.
From The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton
Not like your generous men, as the world calls them, whose free-heartedness is nothing but selfishness, whose liberality is the bait to catch flattery.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
Her gay candour proved to me—perhaps to others besides me—the girl's entire free-heartedness.
From John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
