greatheartednessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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 0192832360, 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 1451404867, page 91:

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