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lion-hearted, a.
Having the heart or courage of a lion; courageous; magnanimously brave.
1708J. Phillips Cyder ii. 563 See Lyon-Hearted Richard, Piously valiant. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 182 Two dogs of chace, a lion-hearted guard. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxx, Farewell, my noble, my lion-hearted boy!
Hence lionˈheartedness.
1885Ruskin Pleas. Eng. 155 The lion-heartedness which gave the glory and the peace of the gods to Leonidas. |