wholehearted
[hohl-hahr-tid]
- fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
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Origin of wholehearted
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Contemporary Examples
Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.
“I firmly and wholeheartedly reject the allegations,” Hawking said from a Cambridge Hospital.
The Other Side of Stephen Hawking: Strippers, Aliens, and Disturbing Abuse ClaimsMarlow Stern
November 6, 2014
They were all willing to wholeheartedly put themselves out there for this thing they cared deeply about.
Believe it wholeheartedly or look at it as a founding myth of Western culture.
While Facebook COO and Lean In guru Sheryl Sandberg urged teachers to “ban bossy,” they embrace the label “boss” wholeheartedly.
Historical Examples
And just as simply and wholeheartedly as you made the offer, I accept it.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
She accepted, as wholeheartedly as he gave it, an income of two hundred a year from him.
In the Mist of the MountainsEthel Turner
Pachuca began to laugh; gently at first, then wholeheartedly.
Across the MesaJarvis Hall
Clare was beginning to guess that what Miss Durand did, she did wholeheartedly.
Regiment of WomenClemence Dane
In the end he, like herself, must look on at the fun rather than share in it wholeheartedly.
The Intrusions of PeggyAnthony Hope
wholehearted
- done, acted, given, etc, with total sincerity, enthusiasm, or commitment
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Word Origin and History for wholeheartedly
wholehearted
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