open-heartedadj.

1593 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia iii. 346 They recounted one to another their strange pilgramage of passions, omitting nothing which the open harted frendship is wont to lay forth.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rond,..free, blunt, plaine, open-hearted, sincere.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 3 I will be as free and open-hearted, as discretion will warrant me to be with a stranger. View more context for this quotation

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman ii. 27 They're so open-hearted, you may know Their own most secret Thoughts, and others too.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xlii. 263 She is reserved, yet is frank and open-hearted. Nobody can impute to her either dissimulation or licence.

1817 J. Austen Sanditon ii, in Minor Wks. (1954) 371 All that he understood of himself, he readily told, for he was very openhearted.

1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vi. 370 Their chiefs, in their openhearted character, fell into snares.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) i. 15 He was frank, open-hearted, full of fine sentiments and exaltations and enthusiasms.

1991 Lang. in Society 20 334 The Westerner is often puzzled by the Japanese use of the word ‘sincerity’, because to the Japanese sincerity is not open-hearted truthfulness but a complex amalgam of ideas.

a1617 S. Hieron Wks. (1620) I. 27 There be..few that are open-hearted and handed to releeue.

1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 26 Neither make open hearted nor open handed their close-fisted Disciples.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 333 The generous open-hearted man sees a thousand bright spots in the prospect around him.

1855 C. Kingsley Heroes Pref. 13 He loves to see men and children open-hearted, and willing to be taught.

1896 Dict. National Biogr. xlvii. 55/2 His learning, academical and social position, high character, and open-hearted charity had already made him well known.

1991 M. Binchy Circle of friends (BNC) 62 It wasn't Mother Clare's style, but God was good, and perhaps she had, for once, been open-hearted and generous.