Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a generous disposition; sympathetic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a large heart or liberal disposition; sympathetic; generous; liberal; magnanimous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
generous heart ordisposition ;noble ;liberal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
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Examples
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There's no doubt in my own mind that it was O'Connell, and frankly I find his large-hearted liberal nationalism much more attractive than Parnell's somewhat neurotic and narrow ideology.
Time to back up, folks nwhyte 2009
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Is it possible, as a writer, to create another human being more generous, large-hearted, and responsive than yourself?
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McCoy could never let go of his view of Spock as Vulcan, because as far as the large-hearted, overly-emotional McCoy was concerned, Spock's "cold-blooded logic" was a character flaw.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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McCoy could never let go of his view of Spock as Vulcan, because as far as the large-hearted, overly-emotional McCoy was concerned, Spock's "cold-blooded logic" was a character flaw.
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A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and when he is exterminated ? as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support ?
One last chance: can we save the tiger? Patrick Barkham 2010
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The remaining four comments were large-hearted enough to extend compassion to the daycare worker and, in so doing, take on a holistic responsibility for the healing process that must, but may not, occur.
The Human Franchise 2009
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Our most creative projects often come out of Leo's large-hearted joy and generosity of Spirit.
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Merely the fact that a preacher was included in the crew at all, and the preacher was not portrayed as an ax murderer or something, is a large-hearted gesture, coming from Hollywood, after all.
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I'd probably still be buskering for pence had not a large-hearted girl in a small Mary Quant mini taken pity on me and given me a job playing the tambourine in her jug band.
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The remaining four comments were large-hearted enough to extend compassion to the daycare worker and, in so doing, take on a holistic responsibility for the healing process that must, but may not, occur.
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