| 单词 | whole-minded |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhole-minded whole-minded adj. (a) of sound mind, sane, rational; (b) giving one's whole mind to something, completely interested or involved. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun] > condition of whole-mindedness1528 intentiveness1561 intentness1642 undistractedness1660 fascination1768 concentrativeness1823 preoccupancy1830 absorbedness1833 concentratedness1835 engrossment1838 raptness1856 fixedness1863 absorbancy1909 1528 T. Wyatt tr. Plutarch Quyete of Mynde sig. a.iv Onely of them that are hole mynded [L. mentis compotes], that long afore prepared, they may be long moost profytable. 1657 G. Hutcheson Expos. John (xiv. 1) 279/2 Christs dearest disciples and true followers..were troubled perplexed and confounded. So that whole minded men have need to look about them. 1817 E. O'Reilly Irish-Eng. Dict. Uileinntineach, whole-minded, unreserved. 1842 F. Byrdsall Hist. Loco-foco iv. 64 The reading of the foregoing letter..was warmly received, because there was a whole-minded frankness in it. 1920 A. C. Buckley Basis of Psychiatry ii. x. 413 The whole-minded ‘aged’ persons who seem to furnish the exceptions are in reality regarded as examples of normal senility. 2007 M. Deutscher Judgm. after Arendt ii. v. 65 Being divided against itself, the self cannot be whole-hearted or whole-minded in what it pronounces. < as lemmas |
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