boldhearted

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boldhearted (comparative more boldhearted, superlative most boldhearted)

  1. Alternative form of bold-hearted
    • 1871, Edward Arber, “The First Printed English New Testament, page 41:
      John Fox gives the following account of this boldhearted man in his Actes, &c.
    • 1877, Thomas De Quincey, The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Narrative and miscellaneous papers:
      You may say that literally; for the single exception was not a man, being our boldhearted Kate.
    • 2012, Stephen Esposito (Euripides), Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae: Four Plays, →ISBN, page 111:
      For this enslaves a man, even one who is boldhearted, whenever he is aware of his mother's or father's wrong doings.