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Hearty

adjective

(compar. heartier; superl. heartiest)

Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness. "A hearty welcome"

Providing abundant nourishment. Synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial. "Good solid food" , "Ate a substantial breakfast" , "Four square meals a day"

Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health. Synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded.

Consuming abundantly and with gusto.

Without reservation.

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"Hearty" Quotes from Famous Books

... advantage of the political disunity of the peninsula to divide his local enemies and thereby to assure the victory of his own cause. Two popes of the sixteenth century belonged to the powerful Florentine family of the Medici—Florence remained loyal. The hearty support of the Emperor Charles V preserved the orthodoxy of Naples, and that of Philip II stamped out heresy in the ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out, As plump and gray as onie grozet; [gooseberry] O for some rank mercurial rozet, [rosin] Or fell red smeddum! [deadly, dust] I'd gie you sic a hearty doze o't, ...

— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson

... funny bone hasn't got goin' right after me expectin' to see that feller blowed to ribbons an' remnants. But them others—say, I've seen men sittin' comfortable in an armchair seat at a roof-garden vaudeville that couldn't raise as hearty a laugh at the prize antics of the thousand dollar star comedian, as them fellers ...

— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)

... unexpected fortune of going to be married! The lady is my cousin Miss Emma Wedgwood, the sister of Hensleigh Wedgwood, and of the elder brother who married my sister, so we are connected by manifold ties, besides on my part, by the most sincere love and hearty gratitude to her for accepting ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... table near him stood a black bottle, an empty trencher, and a thick scatter of crumbs, showing that the old notary had despatched a hearty breakfast before commencing his present work of ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

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