high-hearted

Adjective

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

1. Full of courage or nobleness; heroic.
   • A younger man, who had reined up next to the one Miles called "lord," snorted. "If that boy is high-hearted, or a fierce fighter, either, I'll eat his breeks."1995, Gene Wolfe, Storeys from the Old Hotel, →ISBN, page 113
   • And she was in the world alone, Alone and old, but still high-hearted.1978, Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson, Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters, →ISBN, page 360
2. Full of liveliness and passion, vivacious.
   • "She was not exactly a beauty," Emma said of Julia, mentioning that one of Julia's eyes would go out of focus in a cross-eyed condition known as strabismus, “but she was possessed of a lively and pleasing countenance.” There was more to Julia than that: high-hearted, charming, generous, and very...2011, Charles Bracelen Flood, Grant's Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant's Heroic Last Year, →ISBN, page 24
   • It was not merely its quiet monotony, its unbroken sameness of topics as of events, and its small economies, always appearing on the surface; but that a young girl like Kate, full of life and spirits, gay, handsome, and high-hearted, — that she should go her mill-round of these tiresome daily...2007, Charles Lever, Lord Kilgobbin, →ISBN, page 40