single-heartedness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity. uncountable
    — ...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;

词形变化

singleheartedness alternative

词源

From single-hearted + -ness.
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