Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unreserved; open.
- adjective Chiefly Southern & Northeastern US Generous; liberal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Open; frank; generous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous. Opposite of
stingy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective generous in providing aid to others
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Examples
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It is a mistake to think of the savage as Rousseau imagined him, a freehearted, happy-go-lucky individualist, only by a cramping civilization bowed under the yoke of laws and conventions.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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She had not then reached her eighteenth year, and was a young, freehearted girl, who knew but little of toil or anxiety.
Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission Daniel C. Eddy
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If that is the reason, the freehearted man would defy Him.
Problems of Conduct Durant Drake
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In fact, he was too much of the frank, freehearted soldier, and had inherited too much of his father's temperament, to make a scheming trapper, or a thrifty bargainer.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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In fact, he was too much of the frank, freehearted soldier, and had inherited too much of his father's temperament, to make a scheming trapper, or a thrifty bargainer.
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In fact, he was too much of the frank, freehearted soldier, and had inherited too much of his father's temperament, to make
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821
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I’d learn later that they were as freehearted as I was.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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I’d learn later that they were as freehearted as I was.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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I’d learn later that they were as freehearted as I was.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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I’d learn later that they were as freehearted as I was.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007
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