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; true, heart, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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Wiley’s truehearted, androgynous Poussey Washington was so beloved that some viewers stopped watching the show after her character was killed by a prison guard at the end of Season 4 — Aduba among them.
From New York Times
A robot insurgency is unlikely to take place as a battle of truehearted humans against hordes of evil machines.
From The New Yorker
A truehearted hero in every sense of the word.
From The Guardian
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 Project Gutenberg
Again, at home he sat down and wept over his fate, and his truehearted comrade wept with him almost the whole afternoon.
From Project Gutenberg
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