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big-hearted

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big-hearted
adj
warmly generous
big-heartedness  n
Translations
big-hearted [ˈbɪgˈhɑːtɪd] ADJgeneroso
big-hearted [ˌbɪgˈhɑːtɪd] adjgeneroso/a, di buon cuore
big-hearted [ˌbɪgˈhɑːtɪd] adjgeneroso/a, di buon cuore


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He told the captain he had often heard of the Americans and their generous deeds, and that his buffalo brethren (the Upper Nez Perces) had always spoken of them as the Big-hearted whites of the East, the very good friends of the Nez Perces.
But these paroxysms seldom occurred, and in them my big-hearted shipmate vented the bile which more calm-tempered individuals get rid of by a continual pettishness at trivial annoyances.
And so although outside his work we get only glimpses of the man, these glimpses taken together with his writings show us Will Shakespeare as a big-hearted man, a man who understood all and forgave all.
 
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