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Single-heartedness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence. uncountable

    "Just as Augustine notes that a true virgin must be a virgin physically and spiritually, so too a monk's single-heartedness of purpose in Christ cannot be left to an ethereal realm."

  2. 2
    Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity. uncountable

    "...the result of which congress was an unanimous declaration of their forgiveness of a piece of thoughtless levity on the part of the giddy girl ; and every allowance being pleaded for her single-heartedness and ingenuousness, it was determined that no allusion whatever should again be made to the disagreeable subject;"

Etymology

From single-hearted + -ness.

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