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adjective

Heart-whole adj.

Having the heart or affections free; not in love.

With unbroken courage; undismayed.

Of a single and sincere heart; with unconditional commitment or unstinting devotion; as, heart-whole friendship.

Synonyms: wholehearted. "If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master."

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Etymology of 'Heart-whole'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heart-whole" Quotes from Famous Books

... trouble with posing as a moralist; one must live up to the precepts. Would you believe me if I told you that, at the age of three-and-thirty, I am still heart-whole?" ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... own strength, recognising that the way which the young pioneer of Castelfranco had pointed out was the one into which they could unhesitatingly pour their whole inclination. The instinct for colour was in their very blood. They turned to it with the heart-whole delight with which a bird seeks the air or a fish the water, and foremost among them, to create and to consolidate, ...

— The Venetian School of Painting • Evelyn March Phillipps

... never marry anyone but you, Peter," she whispered to me, as we sat together on the terrace of the palace by the Zuider Zee, after she had confided to me her anxieties, "but I find it hard to keep up the deception that I am heart-whole and fancy-free, and yet indifferent to Count Hendrick's attentions. Indeed, my father openly upbraids me with being fickle, inconstant, unmaidenly, and I know not what besides, until I am driven to my wit's end to keep the peace between us. Yet I doubt not, if he knew the ...

— Adventures in Southern Seas - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century • George Forbes

... so, after Mrs. Thornycroft had kissed and embraced her friend, in sincere delight that Agatha was quite heart-whole, and ready to make what she called "a sensible marriage," but they were stopped on the stairs by a letter that ...

— Agatha's Husband - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)

... Jill was also loved by all who waited on her, and sought after by not a few on account of her great wealth, and had laughed her way through seventeen years of life, to find herself suddenly minus father and money, with nothing left in fact but an estate mortgaged to the smallest pebble, and a heart-whole proposition from her chum Moll to "just come over the wall" and restart laughing her way as her adopted sister through the bit of life which might stretch from the moment of disaster to such time that she should find a life companion ...

— Desert Love • Joan Conquest

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