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gentlehearted en · ADJ

Etymology

From gentle + hearted.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of gentle-hearted.
   alt of gentle-hearted
   • Lady Swinburne was watching him covertly and read some of his thoughts, for she was a discerning gentlehearted woman. 2014, Anya Seton, Devil Water, →ISBN:
   • Unfortunately, meek, kind, gentlehearted Annamaria had cultivated the two most lamentable, most damning traits known to womanhood: She was nice. 2011, Siri Mitchell, A Heart Most Worthy, →ISBN, page 51:
   • 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 ... 1838, William Gilmore Simms, Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story:

Forms

Deriveds

gentleheartedly · gentleheartedness