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large-hearted

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adjective

  1. Also: large-souled. kind; sympathetic

"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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A packed Washington theater audience witnessed the first revival performance of “The Originalist” four months after the death of its legendary and large-hearted “star,” Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2016

I love the heft and sweep of Trace Adkins’ Great Recession anthem “Tough People Do” and appreciate its large-hearted populism.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2012

He is drawn to life and, at the same time, to self-destruction, like a large-hearted moth to an absurd flame.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2011

Monáe is young and fearless enough to try anything, gifted enough to pull almost all of it off, and large-hearted enough to make it feel like a communal experience: Us rather than Me.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 17, 2010

Weak and shortsighted as a statesman, as a man and prelate Dalberg was amiable, conscientious and large-hearted.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

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