greatheartedness

noun

greatheartedness

noun

Etymology From greathearted + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being greathearted; courage or magnanimity.

  • Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius.1854, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Famous Persons and Places, page 116:
  • That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.1998, Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Jonathan Powell), The Republic and The Laws, →ISBN, page 84:
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  • Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in.2004, Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg, Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination, →ISBN, page 91:

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