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heart-whole

[ hahrt-hohl ]

adjective

  1. not in love.
  2. wholehearted; sincere.


heart-whole

adjective

  1. not in love
  2. sincere
  3. stout-hearted
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌheart-ˈwholeness, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of heart-whole1

First recorded in 1425–75; heart ( def ) + whole ( def )
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Example Sentences

Like his best work with the Muppets, Williams’s music is naïve without condescension, as playful as it is heart-whole beautiful.

And a new governess, young, commonplacely pretty, and entirely heart-whole, came to take her place, to the open relief of Mr. Despard, and the little less pronounced satisfaction of the little girls.

In short, Daphne adopted Juggernaut, as only a young and heart-whole girl can whose experience of men so far has been purely domestic.

Alas, she could only go back to the moment when she had tripped heart-whole round the corner of the wood, and seen him standing, solitary, wrapped in thought, a romantic figure.

That would be foolish, for Silver Heels must remain heart-whole and fancy-free to concentrate her envious admiration upon me.

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