wholeheartedly
advUK /ˌhəʊlˈhɑːtɪdli/ · US /ˌhoʊlˈhɑɹtədli/
Etymology From wholehearted + -ly.
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In a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.
- He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.
- [T]hough Augustus and Tiberius discouraged the desire to deify them in their lifetime, Caligula had no sooner expressed his designs on godhead than the Alexandrians wholeheartedly fell in with his wishes, and worshipped him.1898, J[oseph] Grafton Milne, “Religious Institutions”, in A History of Egypt under Roman Rule (A History of Egypt; V), London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, paragraph 32, page 149:
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- Thus unreservedly, promptly, and wholeheartedly did the people of New Mexico, through their chosen representatives, throw themselves and all their resources into the Great War. The Sunshine State fears no storm.1926 January, Lansing B[artlett] Bloom, “New Mexico in the Great War”, in Lansing B. Bloom, Paul A. F. Walter, editors, The New Mexico Historical Review, volume I, number 1, Santa Fe, N.M.: Historical Society of New Mexico at the Museum Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15:
- [H]e had a natural bias against all change, and he hated wholeheartedly what he regarded as the central doctrine of the French Revolution, […]1932 March, John Buchan, “The Man”, in Sir Walter Scott, London; Toronto, Ont.: Cassell and Company, published May 1932, →OCLC, section II, page 361:
- We are wroth with these go-betweens and meddlers—the drifting clouds: these half-and-halfs that have learned neither to bless nor to curse wholeheartedly.1933, Friedrich W[ilhelm] Nietzsche, “Before Sunrise”, in A[lexander] Title, revised by M[ildred] M[ary] Bozman, transl., Thus Spake Zarathustra, London: Heron Books; by arrangement with J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Sons, published [1977?], →OCLC, 3rd part, page 148:
- Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0 – 1 Leicester: Foxes Lift FA Cup for First Time after Youri Tielemans Stunner”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2025:
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- heartedly, heartlessly, put one's heart in, someone's heart is in, wholehearted