truehearted
Americanadjective
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faithful; loyal.
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honest; sincere.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of truehearted
1425–75; late Middle English true hartyd; see true, heart, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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A robot insurgency is unlikely to take place as a battle of truehearted humans against hordes of evil machines.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 20, 2016
A truehearted hero in every sense of the word.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
It was accompanied by an editorial praising the general's "truehearted, frank religiousness in his intercourse with God."
From Time Magazine Archive
The power which the country gentleman and the country clergyman exercised in the rural districts was in some measure counterbalanced by the power of the yeomanry, an eminently manly and truehearted race.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
I cannot refuse to add my testimony, such as it is, to the effect, that the majority is always truehearted.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
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