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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

... the only sentimental episode that had come to him since school days. He had been much too busy to seek love affairs, and up in the mountains they don't lie in wait for one. Therefore at twenty-eight Wade Herrick was heart-whole. He wondered with a smile how long he was destined to remain so unless that same meddling Fate removed either him or Evelyn ...

— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour

... changed Since when thy ship set sail from Bosphorus; Thou didst not always think with such fond thought As now thou dost. Say, didst thou find thy bride Heart-whole as thou didst wish? Had she no lover ...

— Gycia - A Tragedy in Five Acts • Lewis Morris

... asked if his heart was not otherwise engaged. Tom, who did not conceive the meaning of the question, stood silent according to custom; and the interrogation being repeated, answered, with a grin, "Heart-whole as a biscuit, I'll assure you, mistress."—"What!" said Emilia, "have you never been in love, Thomas?"—"Yes, forsooth," replied the valet without hesitation, ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... walked onward. She was heart-whole at least. She had never dreamed of love. It had not been one of her studies. Her father had never presented the idea to her. Her mother had often talked of marriage, and marriages good and bad; but always put them in the light of alliances—compacts—negotiated treaties. Although Lady Hastings ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 • Various

... 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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