whole-souled
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of whole-souled
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed by John Ferguson, Helene Dumas, Ella Houghton.
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But even the most whole-souled mechanic takes some time off, and Henry Ford, the lean Midwesterner with a farmer's flair for opinionating and a mechanic's scorn for words, was always two men.
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As the woman, Colleen Dewhurst achieves a masterly transitional shading between feline will and wiles and the whole-souled vulnerability of love.
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Harrison Spangler has few close friends and few whole-souled enemies.
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It was not a rich copy, but it was a whole-souled, generous old fashioned volume, full of the old Knights daintiest bits of melody.
From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George
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