heartwholeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From heart +‎ whole.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːthəʊl/

形容詞

heartwhole (comparative more heartwhole, superlative most heartwhole)

1. (now rare) Undismayed, not abashed or frightened; healthy. [from 15th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:

     #*:Nay nay saide sire Tristram / Dynadan / neuer drede the / for I am herte hole / & of this wounde I shal soone be hole by the mercy of god […] .

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2. Not in love; romantically unattached. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 87, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     [T]he subject of love being artfully introduced by the widow, who had been directed to sound his inclinations, he rallied the passion with great ease and severity, and made no scruple of declaring himself heart-whole.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 27:

     She remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing; though, being heart-whole as yet, she enjoyed treading a measure purely for its own sake; little divining when she saw "the soft torments, the bitter sweets, the pleasing pains, and the agreeable distresses" of those girls who had been wooed and won, what she herself was capable of in that kind.