Meanings
comparative more great-hearted · superlative most great-hearted
- alternativeAlternative form of greathearted.
And Bobbie Burns, that great-hearted man, stopped and put his hand on the head of little Walter and, speaking words of inspiration and cheer, said, "You can be a great writer someday, Walter, and you will be."
2000, Curtis Hutson, Great Preaching on Comfort, →ISBN, page 1431 more example
But it was surely true – on the basis of what they had done, where they had been and the time they had been away – that they were, as Bean put it, great-hearted men. What was the nation going to do for great-hearted men?
2010, Les Carlyon, The Great War, →ISBN, page 752
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