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high-heartedly

high-heartedly adverb: nobly or courageously.

Adverb

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

  1. Nobly or courageously.
    • "O, they wont shoot you," expostulated his friend, high-heartedly.1982, William Dean Howells, Edwin H. Cady, Howells, 1875-1886, →ISBN, page 158
    • So he continues high-heartedly at the search, and the years have in no way dimmed his ardor.1995, W. K. McNeil, Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 211
  2. Vivaciously, full of passion or energy.
    • I love you gaily, madly, high-heartedly! I love you so much that I could laugh and sing!1931, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (screenplay)
    • For the lady tired of them or, else, was smitten with convenient repentance: and these gay blades passed on high-heartedly to the embraces of yet other technically beautiful and accomplished and chaste playfellows.2003, James Branch Cabell, Something about Eve, →ISBN, page 24

Forms of high-heartedly

comparativemore high-heartedly
superlativemost high-heartedly

Origin of high-heartedly

From high-hearted + -ly.

Questions about high-heartedly

What does high-heartedly mean?
High-heartedly means nobly or courageously.
What part of speech is high-heartedly?
High-heartedly is an adverb.

Words near high-heartedly in the dictionary

  1. high-hat
  2. high-hats
  3. high-hatted
  4. high-hatting
  5. high-hearted
  6. high-heartedly
  7. high-heartedness
  8. high-heel
  9. high-heeled
  10. high-heeling
  11. high-heels

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