great-heartedness

See also: greatheartedness

English

Noun

great-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. 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, 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, 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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