Meaning of white-hearted | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cowardly; lily-livered.
2. Pure in heart; morally good and innocent.

Examples

“[…] and call the defendant a white-hearted son-of-a-bitch?”

“The old deacon had just driven the old mare out on the road to go three miles to church when his wife, who was equally as whitehearted woman as he was a man, said, 'Oh dear, what have we done? […] Here we are going to church this blessed Sunday morning morning and there is that poor little calf that has not been fed. […] '”

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