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narrow-hearted, a.
[narrow a. 4.]
Mean, ungenerous, ignoble.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 29 To þe narewe herted man on his þonke he seið..cune sume meðe þenne þu almesse makest. 1648Gage West Ind. Ded., See what wealth and honor they have lost by one of their narrow hearted Princes. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 282 To fancy a God without it, is to fancy a miserable,..narrow-hearted..God. 1775Adair Amer. Ind. 139 The Indians..ridicule the white people, as a tribe of narrow-hearted and dull-constitutioned animals.
Hence narrow-ˈheartedness.
1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 239 The false and dangerous position into which their churches have been brought by narrow-heartedness and insincerity. 1878Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cviii. 5 David had none of..the narrow-heartedness of some nominal Christians. |