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great-hearted

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adjective

  1. benevolent or noble; magnanimous

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Clive Barnes of The Times called it “a sprawling, rambunctious, great-hearted show.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

Baseball has long seen itself as America’s game, a game as great-hearted, humble and fundamentally decent as America itself.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2017

"The record of such dark and devious doings is the shattering of an idol," wrote the Daily Express, "the idol of a great-hearted friend whose statue stands in Grosvenor Square."

From Time Magazine Archive

"The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies."

From Time Magazine Archive

South into Lakedaimon into the land where greens are wide for dancing Athena went, to put in mind of home her great-hearted hero’s honored son, rousing him to return.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

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