gentlehearted
See also: gentle-hearted
English
Etymology
Adjective
gentlehearted (comparative more gentlehearted, superlative most gentlehearted)
- Alternative form of gentle-hearted
- 2011, Siri Mitchell, A Heart Most Worthy, →ISBN, page 51:
- Unfortunately, meek, kind, gentlehearted Annamaria had cultivated the two most lamentable, most damning traits known to womanhood: She was nice.
- 2014, Anya Seton, Devil Water, →ISBN:
- Lady Swinburne was watching him covertly and read some of his thoughts, for she was a discerning gentlehearted woman.
- 1838, William Gilmore Simms, Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story:
- The dell and dingle have their different spirits, the wood and rivulet theirs; and the gentlehearted peasants who inhabit them are, in some instances, almost as rigidly tenacious of the privileges of the genius loci, as they are of their own rights ...