Meanings
- uncountableThe state or quality of being greathearted; courage or magnanimity.
That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.
1998, Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Jonathan Powell), The Republic and The Laws, →ISBN, page 842 more examples
Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius.
1854, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Famous Persons and Places, page 116Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in.
2004, Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg, Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination, →ISBN, page 91
Origin
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