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simple-hearted, a.
[f. simple a. + heart n.]
Possessed of, or characterized by, a simple heart or spirit; ingenuous, sincere, unsophisticated; † ignorant, simple-minded (obs.). Also absol.
c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) iv. xxx. 80 Oftyme copre is coloured wondre lyke to gold by crafte done therto, soo that symple herted folke wene that it be fyn gold. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1889 Assay! þou simple-hertid goost! What grace is shapen þe, þou naght ne woost. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 387 How he, with dire hypocrisy and false tears, beguiles the simple-hearted. 1775Hist. Voy. C. Evans & S. Cheevers Malta 149 A brief discovery of God's Eternal Truth and a way opened to the simple hearted. 1814Scott Wav. lx, The distress of his situation, among this honest and simple-hearted race, being considered as no reason for increasing their demand. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxvi, He made the most astounding revelations to the simple-hearted Major. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. vii, It was a comfort to me to..hear the simple-hearted Cymric folk talking.
Hence simple-ˈheartedness.
1837Lockhart Scott II. x. 343 Where..the old Statesman entered with such simple-heartedness into all the ways of the happy circle. 1877Ruskin St. Mark's Rest x. §204 Exquisite in its purity, simple-heartedness, and joyful wonder. |