gentleheartedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

gentlehearted ‎(comparative more gentlehearted, superlative most gentlehearted)

1. Alternative form of gentle-hearted
   • 2011, Siri Mitchell, A Heart Most Worthy, ISBN 0764207954, page 51:

     Unfortunately, meek, kind, gentlehearted Annamaria had cultivated the two most lamentable, most damning traits known to womanhood: She was nice.

   • 2014, Anya Seton, Devil Water, ISBN 1444788213:

     Lady Swinburne was watching him covertly and read some of his thoughts, for she was a discerning gentlehearted woman.

   • 1838, William Gilmore Simms, Carl Werner, an Imaginative Story:

     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 ...

語源

gentle +‎ hearted

形容詞

gentle-hearted (comparative more gentle-hearted, superlative most gentle-hearted)

1. Kind and compassionate.
   • 2010, Barbara W. Olson, Gondar, Ethiopia, ISBN 1452046484, page 24:

     I am not sure how our "gentle-hearted" little girl will take the sight of the sheep's death, but when it happens she seems as matter-of-fact as the other two children.

2. Meek and mild.
   • 2010, ‎William Henry Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, ISBN 1429022825, page 416:

     Were these that worshipped here more reverential of the dead? or more affectionate in attachments unsevered by the grave? or more abundant in resources to procure what gentle-hearted poverty might sigh for in vain, a monument, or tablet, or grave stone;

   • 2007, Murray Polner & ‎Stefan Merken, Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition, ISBN 1933480157, page 254:

     The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, "Is there anyone afraid or gentle-hearted? Let him go back to his home, lest he melt the heart of his brothers, like his heart!"

3. (archaic) Refined and cultivated, high-born
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 3,:

     And here's to right our gentle-hearted King!