high-hearted

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high-hearted

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From high + hearted.

adjective more high-hearted · most high-hearted

  1. Full of courage or nobleness; heroic. A younger man, who had reined up next to the one Miles called "lord," snorted. "If that boy is high-hearted, or a fierce fighter, either, I'll eat his breeks."
  2. Full of liveliness and passion, vivacious. "She was not exactly a beauty," Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very int

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@misc{high_hearted_2026,
  title = {high-hearted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/high-hearted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}