high-heartedly

comparative more high-heartedly · superlative most high-heartedly

1. Nobly or courageously.

   "O, they wont shoot you," expostulated his friend, high-heartedly.

   1982, William Dean Howells, Edwin H. Cady, Howells, 1875-1886, →ISBN, page 158

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   So he continues high-heartedly at the search, and the years have in no way dimmed his ardor.

   1995, W. K. McNeil, Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 211

2. Vivaciously, full of passion or energy.

   I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing!

   1931, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (screenplay)

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   For the lady tired of them or, else, was smitten with convenient repentance: and these gay blades passed on high-heartedly to the embraces of yet other technically beautiful and accomplished and chaste playfellows.

   2003, James Branch Cabell, Something about Eve, →ISBN, page 24