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free-hearted
[ free-hahr-tid ]
adjective
- light-hearted; spontaneous; frank; generous.
free-hearted
adjective
- frank and spontaneous; open; generous
Derived Forms
- ˌڰ-ˈٱ, adverb
- ˌڰ-ˈٱԱ, noun
Other Word Forms
- ڰ-Ļ· adverb
- ڰ-Ļ·Ա noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of free-hearted1
Example Sentences
It will be understood, that in thus speaking, I allude alone to the land smugglers, a race altogether different from their fellow labourers of the sea, whom the people looked upon with a much more favourable eye, and who, though rash and daring men enough, were generally a good humoured free-hearted body, spending the money that they had gained at the peril of their lives or their freedom, with a liberal hand and in a kindly spirit.
Any one that knew Casto could not but like him, he was so free-hearted, kind and considerate of every person he met, whether as a friend and equal or as his servant.
When you looked right hard at the haggard face you could see something sort of half-appealing in it; something to make you think that perhaps, away back yonder before the spoiling began, there used to be a man; never a strong man, I guess, but one that might have been generous and free-hearted, maybe.
wonder that, in after years, when suspicion and insidious pride had poisoned the mind of the young king, and when the free-hearted soldiers there gathered together had fallen away from each other, each hoping evil to his comrade that he himself might profit thereby,—what wonder that Alexander remembered the feast of Thais as the happiest of his life?
All very well for the free-hearted lunchers to sit, diverted, getting oratorical pointers from the monologue into which Ten Euyck had plunged!
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