heartsome
Americanadjective
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giving cheer, spirit, or courage.
a heartsome wine.
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cheerful; spirited.
heartsome lads and lasses.
adjective
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cheering or encouraging
heartsome news
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gay; cheerful
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Etymology
Origin of heartsome
Example Sentences
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And it was sending up a heartsome pew of reek into the air, that told of the stir of breakfast.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Then she thought of Paul the man—Paul as he had been, gay and heartsome; Paul as he was, harassed by many cares.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir
It was such an earnest, heartsome world I had come into, out of myself!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
I mind the day"—so he began—"a fine heartsome harvest day in mid-September.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It is, indeed, a rare and heartsome place to bide in on a summer's day.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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