simple-heartedness
See also: simpleheartedness
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From simple-hearted + -ness.
Noun
[edit]simple-heartedness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being simple-hearted; guilelessness, sincerity, lack of sophistication.
- 1998, John Francis McDermott, Before Mark Twain: A Sampler of Old, Old Times on the Mississippi, →ISBN, page 37:
- ... my slight intercourse with him added to the respect which I feel to those of his class, in whom generous feeling, sound practical sense, and shrewd judgment, are often found united with unassuming manners and simple-heartedness.
Translations
[edit]State or quality of being simple-hearted
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