greatheartedness

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English

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Etymology

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From greathearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

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greatheartedness (uncountable)

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