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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
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Clark most engagingly summarizes an enormous scientific literature, and if he gets any substantial number of noneconomic intellectuals innocent of economic history to grasp what we other students of such matters all know happened 1600 to the present we will in our great-heartedness forgive him for the rest.
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Clark most engagingly summarizes an enormous scientific literature, and if he gets any substantial number of noneconomic intellectuals innocent of economic history to grasp what we other students of such matters all know happened 1600 to the present we will in our great-heartedness forgive him for the rest.
Deirdre McCloskey Endorses The Wisdom of Repugnance; or, Too Many Damn Steves! 2007
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Clark most engagingly summarizes an enormous scientific literature, and if he gets any substantial number of noneconomic intellectuals innocent of economic history to grasp what we other students of such matters all know happened 1600 to the present we will in our great-heartedness forgive him for the rest.
Deirdre McCloskey Endorses The Wisdom of Repugnance; or, Too Many Damn Steves! 2007
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The Master said, Yu, [138] how few men know great-heartedness!
The Sayings Of Confucius 551 BC-479 BC Confucius
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Courageous, but with more than the delicacy of her sex, strong only in innocence and great-heartedness, mature in character and feeling, but with fresh and tender sensibility, she appeals to all manly and womanly sympathy.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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I am a profound believer in the great-heartedness of the United States, and there is not an American of German origin who ought not gladly and freely give to the relief of people who, unless the world feeds them, must be the remnant of a nation; and the world in this case is the
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East, and showed to those who had not made the venture, the courage, the fervor, the beauty, the great-heartedness, that made up life in the new El Dorado.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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When Hamilton saw the great-heartedness of the people, whom he came to crush, he wept.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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He was a man renowned for his wealth, as well as for great-heartedness.
Sketches of the Covenanters J. C. McFeeters
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I told you of the thousand dollars which the Señora Parker, in a moment of that great-heartedness which distinguishes her (what a triumph, could I but baptize her in our faith!) forced Señor Parker to present to me.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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