great-hearted

A form of greathearted — Nobly courageous; bighearted; magnanimous.

Meanings

adjectivegreat-hearted (comparative more great-hearted, superlative most great-hearted)

comparative more great-hearted · superlative most great-hearted

  1. 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 143
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    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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Chicago

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