Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Largeness of heart; generosity.
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Examples
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That large-heartedness -- that concern and regard for the plight of others -- is not a partisan feeling.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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That large-heartedness – that concern and regard for the plight of others – is not a partisan feeling.
Obama: Nation is at 'a breaking point' over health care 2009
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That large-heartedness – that concern and regard for the plight of others – is not a partisan feeling.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Amour-propre is the fount of all our self-deceptions, the engine that motors our overestimating our charm, large-heartedness, candor and other ostensibly splendid virtues.
Puncturing Our Pretensions Joseph Epstein 2011
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It says something for the tone of the series, which runs to large-heartedness, that while you may want to smack Ivy in the teeth periodically, the feeling doesn't linger.
A Musical for Marilyn Monroe Dorothy Rabinowitz 2012
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That large-heartedness -- that concern and regard for the plight of others -- is not a partisan feeling.
Remarks by the President on Health Care, 9 September 2009 2009
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That large-heartedness – that concern and regard for the plight of others – is not a partisan feeling.
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That large-heartedness—that concern and regard for the plight of others—is not a partisan feeling.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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That large-heartedness—that concern and regard for the plight of others—is not a partisan feeling.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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That large-heartedness – that concern and regard for the plight of others – is not a partisan feeling.
Andrea Chalupa: Obama's Health Care Speech: Best and Worst Moments 2010
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