great-heartedness

A form of greatheartedness — The state or quality of being greathearted; courage or magnanimity.

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Meanings

noungreat-heartedness (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of greatheartedness.

    "Ah," cried Dick, "ye must find it in your great-heartedness to pardon me!

    1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
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    Great-heartedness leads us to undertake great and arduous works in every kind of Virtue without taking fright at their magnitude.

    2012, Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity, →ISBN, page 118

    Larger, and sometimes louder, than life, he dominated the stages on which he appeared with ebullience and great-heartedness.

    2015, Stanley Wells, Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, →ISBN, page 214
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APA

great-heartedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/great-heartedness

MLA

“great-heartedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/great-heartedness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “great-heartedness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/great-heartedness.

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