HEART-WHOLE adjective (hahrt-hohl)
adjective
1. not in love.
2. wholehearted; sincere.
Quotes
... it may be said of him that Cupid hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart-whole. --*William Shakespeare,*As You Like It, 1623 "What," said he, "have I flirted with so many girls in my own way of life, and come away heart-whole, and now to fall in love with a gentlewoman, who would bid her footman show me the door if she knew of my presumption!" --*Charles Reade,*Put Yourself in His Place, 1870
Origin
Heart-whole came to English in the 1400s from late Middle English.
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