Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being hearted: used in composition: as, hard-heartedness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
hearted . - noun countable The result or product of being
hearted .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Evidence perhaps, that even with the most advanced and sustainably-minded undertakings, a bit of whimsy and light-heartedness is good for the soul and home.
Via Torino Renovated Green Loft in Fashionable Milan | Inhabitat
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The goldfinch has the advantage of the titmouse in several respects, but he lacks that sprightliness, that exceeding light-heartedness, which is the chickadee's most endearing characteristic.
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Unreserved children of sincerity, by the very open-heartedness which is one great cause of their commanding power, and contagiously diffuses every zealous affection originating in their nobility of nature -- by this grown to excess, made negligent of instinctive self-defence, and heedless of misconstruction, or overcome by importunate and clinging temptations -- to what charges have they not been exposed from that proneness to disparaging judgments so common in little minds!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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German pieces of this kind are often extremely charming and diverting, and they impart that light-heartedness which is a first condition of a healthy mind.
Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
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A splendid Newfoundland fisherman and his wife had a summer fishing station here, and with that generous open-heartedness which is characteristic of our seafarers, they were only too anxious to help.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
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In a way the music is both meteorological and psychological; it pictures the dreary waste of country; it seems to speak of the falling snow and biting frost; but it also gives voice to the heavy-heartedness which is the prevailing mood of the act.
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I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge.
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I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge.
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I will try to imitate you, and rise above the half-heartedness which is the bane of existence, and which makes the firm path of life a trembling, swaying bridge.
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But if there was little amusement, there was, on the other hand, great devotion; the Princess, as a child, had that peculiar combination of self-will and warm-heartedness which is apt to win for a child a special love from its elders.
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