Definition of "freehearted" [free•heart•ed]

• Unreserved; open. (adjective)
• Chiefly Southern & Northeastern U.S. Generous; liberal. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If that is the reason, the freehearted man would defy Him."
• "It is a mistake to think of the savage as Rousseau imagined him, a freehearted, happy-go-lucky individualist, only by a cramping civilization bowed under the yoke of laws and conventions."
• "She had not then reached her eighteenth year, and was a young, freehearted girl, who knew but little of toil or anxiety."