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freeheartedly en · ADV

Etymology

From freehearted + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a freehearted manner; lightly and without constraint or worry.
   • Before dawn on Sunday ew had put Nagasaki behind us and were off on our 445 mile sail to Shanghai, regretful at leaving a country and a people who had entertained us so lavishly and free-heartedly for a week that always will be a luster of red letter days in the memory of all. 1909, Robert H. Murray, Around the World with Taft:
   • So now, I think, you know all about it, — and you see you may do what you can for me, freeheartedly — without fear of harm — and for Aracoeli sake. 1964, John Ruskin, William Francis Cowper-Temple Mount-Temple (1st baron), The Letters of John Ruskin to Lord and Lady Mount-Temple, →ISBN, page 53:

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