Single-heartedness
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 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;"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From single-hearted + -ness.
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