Definition of "greathearted" [greathearted]

• Noble or courageous in spirit: a greathearted general. (adjective)
• Generous; magnanimous: a greathearted landowner. (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.

• "You can, I suppose, dismiss that message as purest Victorian hypocrisy, but to listen to the G-Minor Mass and the Fifth Symphony is to know that the greathearted genius who made them was the truest of believers in the power of art to uplift and ennoble the souls of his fellow men."
• "This too has been told you by any number of greathearted men."
• "He feels the same way as she does—of course he does—but she is married to the man they both love and admire—the greathearted Geoffrey Moor."