truehearted
Americanadjective
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faithful; loyal.
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honest; sincere.
Other Word Forms
- trueheartedness noun
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
Under a truehearted leader they would doubtless have stood their ground.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
And he was allowed to see the prisoner occasionally in the presence of the chief warder, finding the unhappy man, for whom he had a truehearted sympathy, strangely quiet.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil
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