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
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
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
How blessed it is that God sends these 'perpetual messiahs' among us, to lead us back to innocence and free-heartedness and faith.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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
