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singleheartedness

singleheartedness is the alternative form of single-heartedness.

Meaning of single-heartedness

Noun

single-heartedness (uncountable)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Origin of singleheartedness

From singlehearted + -ness.

Questions about singleheartedness

What is singleheartedness the alternative form of?
Singleheartedness is the alternative form of single-heartedness.

Words near singleheartedness in the dictionary

  1. singlehandedness
  2. singlehanding
  3. singlehands
  4. singlehearted
  5. singleheartedly
  6. singleheartedness
  7. singlehood
  8. singleism
  9. singleleaf
  10. singlely
  11. singleminded

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