a. Having the heart or courage of a lion; courageous; magnanimously brave.
1708. J. Phillips, Cyder, II. 563. See Lyon-Hearted Richard, Piously valiant.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XX. 182. Two dogs of chace, a lion-hearted guard.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxx. Farewell, my noble, my lion-hearted boy!
Hence Lionheartedness.
1821. Morning Post, 10 March, 3/4. Joshua Hudson, from his intrepidity in the prize ring, had a just claim upon the pockets of those amateurs who admired his lion-heartedness.
1885. Ruskin, Pleasures Eng., 155. The lion-heartedness which gave the glory and the peace of the gods to Leonidas.
