a. Having a warm heart; of a generous and affectionate disposition. Also, proceeding from, or indicating, such a disposition; hearty, cordial.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, lxxv. 32. Be warme hairtit and nocht ewill-willie.
1808. Han. More, Cœlebs, xlv[i]. Flam is naturally an open, warm-hearted man.
1844. Mem. Babylonian Princess, II. 80. The kind and warm-hearted treatment which I kad experienced from the Dryaah tribe.
1859. Geo. Eliot, Adam Bede, l. He’s of a rash, warm-hearted nature, like Esau.
Hence Warm-heartedly adv., Warm-heartedness.
1808. Han. More, Cœlebs, xi. I. 142. Her extreme naïveté and warm-heartedness.
1837. Morning Post, 26 Sept., 4/1. Her husband, whose name is Green, is the person who so warm-heartedly confirmed her statement before your Lordship.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, xlii. That’s the way I’ve gone through life. Experience has never put a chill upon my warm-heartedness.
1911. Concise Oxf. Dict., Warm-heartedly adv.
