single-heartedness
single-heartedness noun: devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
Noun
single-heartedness (uncountable)
- Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
- 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.2008, Jana Marguerite Bennett, Water Is Thicker than Blood : An Augustinian Theology of Marriage and Singleness, →ISBN, page 110
- Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity.
- ...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...1825, Theodore Edward Hook, “The Sutherlands”, in Sayings and Doings: Or, Sketches from Life, volume 1, number 2, page 27
Forms of single-heartedness
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Origin of single-heartedness
From single-hearted + -ness.
Questions about single-heartedness
- What does single-heartedness mean?
- Single-heartedness means devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
- What part of speech is single-heartedness?
- Single-heartedness is a noun.
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