Definition of "high-hearted" [high•-heart•ed]

• Full of courage or nobleness. (adjective)

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• "He edited and annotated them, hoping the "public-at-large" would profit by reading "the page-by-page transition of this man from high-hearted exuberance to hopeless resignation.""
• "But Lady Laura was a blonde, and trouble had told upon her outwardly, as it is wont to do upon those who are fair-skinned, and, at the same time, high-hearted."
• "He is at any rate too high-hearted to be affected by the prospect of such variation."