lion-hearted

See also: lionhearted

English

Adjective

lion-hearted (comparative more lion-hearted, superlative most lion-hearted)

1. (idiomatic) Very brave; brave and magnanimous.
   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     It may be here remarked, that the knights of these two orders were accounted hostile to King Richard, having adopted the side of Philip of France in the long train of disputes which took place in Palestine betwixt that monarch and the lion-hearted King of England.

Anagrams

• leonhardite