plain-hearted
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Adjective edit
plain-hearted (comparative more plain-hearted, superlative most plain-hearted)
- frank; sincere; artless
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Summer”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:
- For every virtue , every worth , renown'd ;
Sincere , plain-hearted , hospitable , kind
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plain-hearted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)