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Webster 1913 Edition
Great-heartedness
Great′-heartˊed-ness
,Noun.
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
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English
Noun
great-heartedness (uncountable)
- Alternative form of greatheartedness
- 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
- "Ah," cried Dick, "ye must find it in your great-heartedness to pardon me!
- 2012, Gerald Vann, The Divine Pity, ISBN 1105619907, page 118:
- Great-heartedness leads us to undertake great and arduous works in every kind of Virtue without taking fright at their magnitude.
- 2015, Stanley Wells, Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh, ISBN 0198703295, page 214:
- Larger, and sometimes louder, than life, he dominated the stages on which he appeared with ebullience and great-heartedness.
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