singlehearted

comparative more singlehearted · superlative most singlehearted

1. alternativeAlternative form of single-hearted.

   But the Achilles depicted there is the same that is revealed here, obsessed with one idea felt with a single-hearted intensity which we can marvel at, even if we cannot comprehend it.

   1946, Eric Trevor Owen, The Story of the Iliad, →ISBN, page 103

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   “Nay, nay,” interrupted the single-hearted and generous guide; “Jasper wants not for friends in this region, I can assure you; and though seeing the world, according to his habits, may do him good as well as another, we shall think none the worse of him if he never quits us.

   1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea

   Delilah and Samson, Guinevere and King Arthur, Lady Macbeth and Banquo, Lucy Westenra and Jonathan Harker— all provide narrative examples of the duplicitous female and the single-hearted male.

   2005, Karen Love, Lies Before Our Eyes: The Denial of Gender from the Bible to Shakespeare and Beyond, →ISBN, page 60