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- adjective
Whole inheart ;cheerfully buoyant ,loyal , etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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See supra, p. 102. 336 i.e. her favours were not lawful till the union was sanctified by heartwhole
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She released him, — declared her own purpose of marrying well; and then, though there had been a moment in which her own assurance of her own love had been passionate enough, she went so far as to tell him that she was heartwhole.
The Duke's Children 2004
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And what could two handsome, heartwhole, sentimental young beings do but fall ----
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He entered heartwhole on all his amatory adventures, and left them with indifference.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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And, when he found that out, being heartwhole at the time and poor as a mouse, he couldn't but see that to wed Mary Jane would be a pretty useful step; because she had her own money and was a nice enough woman, though not very good-looking.
The Torch and Other Tales Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Temple whom they all would have scorned, there was always a certain subtle something wanting, and the lack of it kept him heartwhole.
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And so the mystery was solved, and Barney escaped, be it said, heartwhole and body free -- while Frank and his friends returned to the city.
Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905
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They will not make me dream of women, my friend: I am heartwhole.
Act III 1903
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They will not make me dream of women, my friend: I am heartwhole.
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903
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I come to you heartwhole and passionless, without a single love-word chronicled in my girlhood's history, or a single incident you may not know.
Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889
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