truehearted
Americanadjective
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faithful; loyal.
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honest; sincere.
Other Word Forms
- trueheartedness noun
Etymology
Origin of truehearted
1425–75; late Middle English true hartyd; true, heart, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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A robot insurgency is unlikely to take place as a battle of truehearted humans against hordes of evil machines.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 20, 2016
A truehearted hero in every sense of the word.
From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2013
It was accompanied by an editorial praising the general's "truehearted, frank religiousness in his intercourse with God."
From Time Magazine Archive
Could you really hold me to be blameless, and do you think that truehearted women act usually so?
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert
Again, at home he sat down and wept over his fate, and his truehearted comrade wept with him almost the whole afternoon.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav
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