white-heartedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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

1. Cowardly; lily-livered.
   • 1898, Texas. Court of Criminal Appeals, The Texas Criminal Reports (page 67)

     […] and call the defendant a white-hearted son-of-a-bitch?

2. Pure in heart; morally good and innocent.
   • 1894, Maine. Board of Agriculture, Annual Report (page 172)

     The old deacon had just driven the old mare out on the road to go three miles to church when his wife, who was equally as whitehearted woman as he was a man, said, 'Oh dear, what have we done? […] Here we are going to church this blessed Sunday morning morning and there is that poor little calf that has not been fed. […] '