"gentle-hearted" meaning in English

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          "text": "I am not sure how our \"gentle-hearted\" little girl will take the sight of the sheep's death, but when it happens she seems as matter-of-fact as the other two children.",
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          "text": "Were these that worshipped here more reverential of the dead? or more affectionate in attachments unsevered by the grave? or more abundant in resources to procure what gentle-hearted poverty might sigh for in vain, a monument, or tablet, or grave stone;",
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          "ref": "2007, Murray Polner, Stefan Merken, Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition, →ISBN, page 254:",
          "text": "The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, \"Is there anyone afraid or gentle-hearted? Let him go back to his home, lest he melt the heart of his brothers, like his heart!\"",
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