Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With singleness, sincerity, or integrity of heart.
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Examples
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For John Fox, elemental as he was, was still complex enough to entertain several glimmering ideas at a time, which debarred him from pursuing the one as single-heartedly or as far as did the chief.
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In Berlin, Barack Obama single-heartedly re-connected the US psyche with the psyche of the planet as a whole, and our European allies in particular.
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In Berlin, Barack Obama single-heartedly re-aligned US aspirations with those of the civilized world.
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They have come by deliberate choice, and a larger proportion of them, and more single-heartedly, for home's sake than in any other as large migration on record.
The California Birthday Book Various
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All my doubts and depressions of the evening before had fled, and I was single-heartedly delighted with the world and everything in it.
Parnassus on Wheels Christopher Morley 1923
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And thus adventuring, white men and indigenous black men from day to day lived life in the Solomons, bickering and trafficking, the whites striving to maintain their heads on their shoulders, the blacks striving, no less single-heartedly, to remove the whites 'heads from their shoulders and at the same time to keep their own anatomies intact.
Chapter 9 1917
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All my doubts and depressions of the evening before had fled, and I was single-heartedly delighted with the world and everything in it.
Parnassus On Wheels 1917
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Do we still write poetry as single-heartedly as people did?
The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913
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Indeed, so great were the generosities of his character that, had he not been arrogant, disdainful, self-confident, resolutely and single-heartedly ambitious, he must inevitably have ruined himself -- if he had ever been able to rise high enough to be worthy the dignity of catastrophe.
Grain of Dust. 1911
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And he did reproduce it, powerfully, single-heartedly, as only genius could have done it.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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