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gentle-hearted en · ADJ

Etymology

From gentle + hearted.

Meanings

1. Kind and compassionate.
   • I am not sure how our "gentle-hearted" little girl will take the sight of the sheep's death, but when it happens she seems as matter-of-fact as the other two children. 2010, Barbara W. Olson, Gondar, Ethiopia, →ISBN, page 24:
2. Meek and mild.
   • Were these that worshipped here more reverential of the dead? or more affectionate in attachments unsevered by the grave? or more abundant in resources to procure what gentle-hearted poverty might sigh for in vain, a monument, or tablet, or grave stone; 2010, William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, →ISBN, page 416:
   • The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, "Is there anyone afraid or gentle-hearted? Let him go back to his home, lest he melt the heart of his brothers, like his heart!" 2007, Murray Polner, Stefan Merken, Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition, →ISBN, page 254:
3. (archaic) Refined and cultivated, high-born
   • And here's to right our gentle-hearted King! 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 3,:

Forms

Deriveds

gentle-heartedness · gentle-heartedly