High-hearted

Quick meaning: High-hearted is an adjective meaning Full of courage or nobleness; heroic.

Meaning

Full of courage or nobleness; heroic.

More Meanings

1. Full of liveliness and passion, vivacious.

Example Sentences

And she was in the world alone, Alone and old, but still high-hearted.

A younger man, who had reined up next to the one Miles called "lord," snorted. "If that boy is high-hearted, or a fierce fighter, either, I'll eat his breeks."

The result proved that he did not yet know the high-hearted woman who, whatever her faults might be, was yet capable of sacrificing all with cheerfulness to follow him to the prison — or even to the scaffold.

"She was not exactly a beauty," Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very intelligent, she was invariably at the center of every social gathering, the favorite of girls and young men alike.

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