English

Adjective

singlehearted ‎(comparative more singlehearted, superlative most singlehearted)

1. Alternative form of single-hearted
   • 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea:

     “Nay, nay,” interrupted the single-hearted and generous guide; “Jasper wants not for friends in this region, I can assure you; and though seeing the world, according to his habits, may do him good as well as another, we shall think none the worse of him if he never quits us.

   • 1946, Eric Trevor Owen, The Story of the Iliad, ISBN 0865162352, page 103:

     But the Achilles depicted there is the same that is revealed here, obsessed with one idea felt with a single-hearted intensity which we can marvel at, even if we cannot comprehend it.

   • 2005, Karen Love, Lies Before Our Eyes: The Denial of Gender from the Bible to Shakespeare and Beyond, ISBN 3039101935, page 60:

     Delilah and Samson, Guinevere and King Arthur, Lady Macbeth and Banquo, Lucy Westenra and Jonathan Harker— all provide narrative examples of the duplicitous female and the single-hearted male.