greathearted
Americanadjective
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having or showing a generous heart; magnanimous.
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high-spirited; courageous; fearless.
greathearted defense of liberty.
Other Word Forms
- greatheartedly adverb
- greatheartedness noun
Etymology
Origin of greathearted
1350–1400; Middle English grete hartyd
Example Sentences
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And there’s Andy Roddick in 2009, after 16-14 in the fifth against Federer, absorbing both one of the meanest defeats anyone ever took and the crowd’s greathearted chanting of his name.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2020
“You are dealing with well-intentioned, greathearted, smart, good people, but they are short-timers.”
From New York Times • May 28, 2014
By turns greathearted and grim, “The Wind Is Not a River” probes the reasons for, and the consequences of, the human practice of war.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2014
Per�n likes the role of the greathearted, affable male.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as the weight of care rolled back upon this greathearted, patient man, he added, with humorous weariness, "especially the goats."
From The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Nicolay, Helen
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