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frank-heartedness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of having a frank or candid disposition.

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Examples

  • Mantle faded upon the ill-imagined frank-heartedness of poor Lilias.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • If a hermit had proposed to him to club for a pot of beer, the illusion of his reverend sanctity could not have been dispelled more effectually than the divine qualities of Green Mantle faded upon the ill-imagined frank-heartedness of poor Lilias.

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • His liberal soul shone forth on his open brow; his frank-heartedness managed his secrets no better than his benevolence did his estate, and a thought was no sooner his than it was the property of all.

    History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • His liberal soul shone forth on his open brow; his frank-heartedness managed his secrets no better than his benevolence did his estate, and a thought was no sooner his than it was the property of all.

    History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • His liberal soul shone forth on his open brow; his frank-heartedness managed his secrets no better than his benevolence did his estate, and a thought was no sooner his than it was the property of all.

    The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782

  • With artistic skill, and often with sustained energy, he develops the career of the 'All-Fair' prince, and his relation to the monkish struggle of the tenth century; the hostile intrigues and stormy violence of Dunstan; the loyal tenacity and Saxon frank-heartedness of Earl Leolf and his allies; the celebrated coronation-scene, and 'most admired disorder' of the banquet; the discovery and denunciation of Edwin's secret nuptials; his imprisonment in the Tower of London; the confusion and dispersion of his adherents; the ecclesiastical finesse and conjuror-tricks of

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 Various 1836

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