greatheartedness

See also: great-heartedness

English

Etymology

From greathearted +‎ -ness.

Noun

greatheartedness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being greathearted; courage or magnanimity.
   • 1854, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Famous Persons and Places, page 116:

     Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius.

   • 1998, Marcus Tullius Cicero (translated by Jonathan Powell), The Republic and The Laws, →ISBN, page 84:

     That virtue is called bravery which contains greatheartedness and a lofty contempt of pain and death.

   • 2004, Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg, Translucence: Religion, the Arts, and Imagination, →ISBN, page 91:

     Luther speculates that Abraham, in his godly greatheartedness, must have learned of Lot's plight and taken him and his family in.