英和和英

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!

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 ...