Single-heartedness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Single-heartedness is a noun meaning Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
Meaning
Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
More Meanings
- Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity.
Example Sentences
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.
...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;
Word Forms
- singleheartedness
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include singleheartedness, undevotion, noncommitment, self-absorption, desirelessness, dead-heartedness.
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