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free-ˈhearted, a.
[f. free a. + heart + -ed2.]
Having a ‘free heart’ in various senses; frank, open, unreserved; unburdened with anxiety, guilt, or suspicion; acting on the spontaneous impulse of the heart; generous, liberal, bountiful.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. lxxix. (1495) 520 Angry of speche and sharpe. Netheles free herted and fayr of speche. c1440Promp. Parv. 177/2 Fre hertyd in yeftys..liberalis. 1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Ded. 1 They shewed them selues so willing, so glad, so cherefull, and so fre harted, to further the worke. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xviii. 2 Bound..with the bond of freeharted and willing love. 1607Shakes. Timon iii. i. 10 That..Free-hearted Gentleman of Athens. 1684Otway Atheist i. i, Come, come, no trifling, be free-hearted and friendly. 1728Gay Begg. Op. ii. i, Money was made for the Freehearted and Generous. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 43 He..throws off his habits of shy reserve, and becomes joyous and free-hearted. a1853Robertson Lect. ii. (1858) 61 A rigorous proscription of all freehearted mirth.
Hence free-ˈheartedly adv. (in mod. Dicts.); free-ˈheartedness.
1607Hieron Wks. I. 389 As for examples, we haue..the free heartednesse of Cornelius, he gaue much almes. 1686Burnet Trav. i. (1750) 57 They all met with a Kindness and Freeheartedness, that [etc.]. |