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单词 wholehearted
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wholeheartedadj.

Brit. /ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌhoʊlˈhɑrdəd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: whole adj., hearted adj.
Etymology: < whole adj. + hearted adj. With sense 1 compare earlier broken-hearted adj. With sense 2 compare earlier whole heart at whole adj. 7b. Compare also heart-whole adj.
1. Convinced of one's own moral perfection; not afraid of divine judgement; self-righteous. Obsolete.Sometimes contrasted with broken-hearted; cf. Luke 4:18: ‘He hath sent mee to heale the broken hearted’ (King James Bible).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > consciously respectable
self-righteous?1575
Pharisaica1618
wholehearteda1628
smug1669
pious1683
righteous1809
a1628 J. Preston Golden Scepter (1638) 263 A man that is still whole hearted ever since hee was borne, and never affrighted with sinne and wrath.
1647 S. Rutherford Christ Dying 251 No whole-hearted sinners meet with Christ.
1759 J. Hart Hymns Pref. p. xix A whole-hearted Disciple can have but little Communion with a broken-hearted Lord.
1781 J. Cave Epist. Inhabitants Gillingham i. 19 Where is the unconverted, whole-hearted, boasting Pharisee now?
1805 Evening Fire-side 3 Aug. 265/2 You will suffer persecution, perhaps even among some of your own whole-hearted people.
1878 T. Bradbury Grove Chapel Pulpit II. xcv. 511 Whole-hearted hypocrites find no encouragement here.
2.
a. Of a person: completely devoted or committed; totally sincere.Apparently not recorded in 18th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adjective]
needfulOE
anguishous?c1225
eager?a1300
throc1330
fierce1377
desirousc1386
affectuousa1400
yeverousa1400
inwardc1402
earnestful?1406
rathe?c1450
zealing1459
increc1480
affectual1483
zealous1526
affectioneda1533
jealous1535
heartyc1540
affectivec1550
earnest1563
pricking1575
forward1587
affectionate1598
passiveless1602
zealful1602
full-hearteda1616
wholehearted1644
intense1645
high1649
covetous1652
thorough-hearted1656
keen as mustard1659
fell1667
fervent1673
smirk1674
zealed1679
prest1697
strenuous1713
enthusiastic1741
enthusiastical1755
whole-souled1821
con amore1828
lyrical1875
mustard1919
gung ho1942
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > absorbed, engrossed
absolute1483
rapta1500
wrapped1548
full1578
bewrapped1589
immerse1626
wholehearted1644
undistracted1659
absorpt1697
wrapped (up) in1711
deep1735
absorbed1763
undiverted1798
unindifferent1813
whole-souled1821
absorbing1825
wrapped1884
hung-up on1966
1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum 10 Thy friend, thy sound-whole-hearted friend.]
1644 R. Williams Mr. Cottons Let. Examined & Answered To Rdr. (margin) Whole hearted seekers the only seekers of Christ Iesus.
1651 J. Horn Caveat to All True Christians ii. 27 Many are in that sense perfect, whole-hearted for God and Christ.
1821 Christian Herald (Portsmouth, New Hampsh.) 8 Nov. 88/1 More faithful, whole hearted laborers, who..trust in the chief shepherd for their reward.
1840 W. E. Channing Let. 18 July in Corr. (1874) 366 What a whole-hearted man! as we Yankees say.
1882 Cent. Mag. Feb. 618/1 But it chanced, in the summer just passed, that the district secured a genuine whole-hearted school-master.
1938 Classical Philol. 33 293 Some of his statements seem to indicate that he was a wholehearted Panhellenist, others that he was a narrow Athenian patriot.
1953 E. Lönnroth in G. A. Craig & F. Gilbert Diplomats: 1919–39 (1994) iii. 96 Stresemann..was in constant contact with Undén, whom he tried to make a whole-hearted champion of Germany's interests within the League.
2014 R. Kennedy Children's War iv. 102 The assistance of boys who were wholehearted in their work.
b. Of an action, emotion, etc.: characterized by complete sincerity and commitment.rare before 19th cent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective]
aefauldOE
trueOE
true as steela1300
throlya1375
entirec1380
faithfula1382
entirelyc1400
single1519
sincere1533
sincere1539
simple-minded1556
Dunstable?1565
truthful?1567
single-hearted1574
single-minded1577
sound1580
downright1584
unaffected1592
real1597
plain-hearted1601
unartificial1603
free1619
honest1634
fair and square1636
round-dealing1642
wholehearted1657
down flata1663
well-designing1670
heart-whole1684
single-eyed1705
unsanctimoniousa1797
natural1825
bona fide1827
unfallacious1827
jannock1828
forthcoming1835
up and down1836
bonified1840
forthgoing1851
unhypocritical1854
forthright1855
upstanding1863
on the level1872
genuine1890
for real1954
upfront1967
1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iv. 719 The Lord calls for whole-hearted, not half-hearted Obedience.
1837 Literary & Theol. Rev. Dec. 508 Their whole-hearted desire to promote the highest benefit of their race.
1855 E. B. Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Notes 366 The most perfect and whole-hearted repentance.
1901 Scotsman 14 Mar. 6/4 The whole-hearted support of British policy by the Canadians.
1989 J. Aiken Blackground i. 46 I enjoyed becoming the object of someone else's wholehearted, obsessive pursuit and admiration.
2013 D. K. Goodwin Bully Pulpit xxvi. 664 Roosevelt expressed wholehearted approval.

Derivatives

ˌwholeˈheartedly adv. in a completely committed or totally sincere manner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > zeal or enthusiasm > [adverb]
yernlyc725
yerneOE
yernfullyOE
earnestlyOE
fastOE
needlya1350
keenlya1375
prestlya1375
eagerlyc1380
busilya1400
earnestfullya1400
enkerly?a1400
entirelya1400
affectuously?a1425
affectuallyc1425
effectually1434
heartfullya1450
heartilya1450
increlyc1480
zealously?1495
affectionately1534
earnest1563
heart and soul1620
obnixiously1632
obnixely1641
earn1656
warmly1665
enthusiastically1730
con amore1749
ravingly1825
wholeheartedly1845
enthusiastly1846
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adverb]
utterly?c1225
entirelya1340
faithlyc1350
without (but) feigningc1380
clearly1389
whollyc1390
unfeigninglyc1400
entirec1430
unfeigneda1469
without coloura1513
honestly1526
singly1526
unfeignedly1526
uncolourably1541
bona fide1542
frankly?1553
sincerely1560
squarely1564
uprightly1565
square1577
single-mindedly1579
undissemblinglyc1585
above board1599
fair and square1604
downright1607
downrightly1632
really1641
uncasuistly1649
honest1654
up tro1654
plain-heartedly1675
unaffectedly1677
straightforwardly1839
wholeheartedly1845
unfallaciously1852
up and down1854
single-heartedly1857
unflatteringly1874
uncynically1895
square on1963
1845 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 1 Jan. That Carlton should write a book..whole-heartedly Irish, has long been wished for by every Irishman.
1893 in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 534 Socially, we unite whole-heartedly and without reservation with our non-Jewish fellow-citizens.
1961 E. Wagenknecht Nathaniel Hawthorne iv. 124 Whittier..did not wholeheartedly support the Civil War.
2003 Bitch Summer 26/2 Because Charlene is presented from the start as a sponger.., the film doesn't let us believe wholeheartedly in her innocence.
ˌwholeˈheartedness n.
ΚΠ
a1658 J. Durham Unsearchable Riches Christ (1685) 96 The lifelessness and whole heartedness, that manifestly discover themselves, in our own hearing of these things, declare much what we are.
1836 W. A. Alcott Life Peter Apostle xvii. 77 His whole-heartedness in returning to duty.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Christianity II. iv. xxii. 43 A wavering disposition,..a want of whole-heartedness, a dualism of life and aim.
1969 Bull. Atomic Scientists Feb. 44/2 The reassertion of collectivist agriculture was not accepted with equal whole-heartedness by all the leaders.
2010 D. E. Miller J. S. Mill ix. 188 Some commentators call the wholeheartedness of Mill's endorsement of plural voting into question.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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