steel-heartedadj.
1. Stout-hearted, courageous.
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the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > stout-heartedness > [adjective]
savagec1330
well-heartedc1485
stout-hearted1552
steel-hearted1571
intrepid1697
skookum1847
aggro1985
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (iv. 2) i. f. 10 Dauid was not so steeleharted [L. ferreus], but that his aduersitie dyd cast hym intoo piteowse anguish of mynd.
1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 62 A handful of steel-hearted soldiers.
2. Hard-hearted; cruel, unfeeling; obdurate, inflexible.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > hard-heartedness > [adjective]
hard hearteOE
hateleOE
hard-heartedc1225
cruel1297
dure1412
flinty1536
heartless1556
flint-hearted1560
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
unbowelled1592
blunt1594
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
brassy1600
unfeeling1600
cold-blooded1602
cold-hearteda1616
flinty-hearted1629
callous1647
unsympathizing1735
cool-hearted1748
pebble-hearted1816
unsympathetic1823
cold1849
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted
hard hearteOE
steelena1000
hardOE
hard-heartedc1225
stony?c1230
yhert1340
dure1412
hardedc1425
induratec1425
stonishc1450
hardenedc1480
steely1508
flinty1536
endured1540
stiff-stomached1540
heartless1556
indured1558
flint-hearted1560
iron1561
marble1565
stone-hearted?1569
stony-hearted1569
iron-hearted1570
steel-hearted1571
rocky?1578
brawned1582
flinted1582
padded1583
obdure?1590
brawny1596
flintful1596
flint-heart1596
steeled1600
cauterized1603
indurated1604
flinty-hearted1629
ahenean1630
dedolent1633
brawny-hearteda1639
hard-grained1643
callous1647
upsitten1682
seared1684
petrified1720
calloused1746
coreless1813
pebble-hearted1816
hard-shelled1848
hard-plucked1857
steel trap1921
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (viii. 3) i. f. 23 Against the steele~harted despysers of God [L. contra ferreos Dei contemptores].
1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. 11 As for those fierce, those steel hearted men [L. istos feros ac ferreos].
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 378 Experienced and well-tried and steel-hearted men whom they call Judges.
1897 E. Conybeare Hist. Cambs. 128 Who could be so steel-hearted that that woman could not bend him to her wishes?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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