Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noble; generous; hearty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective with unconditional and enthusiastic devotion

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Examples

  • He was a good fighter, whole-souled and stubborn, and he would have been content to continue feeding the machine for years; but he was bleeding to death, and not years but weeks would determine the fight.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • MacDonald retained his whole-souled benevolence, though it seemed to take on a slightly exaggerated tone.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • Persuading his father to advance the capital, he went into business and keen and successful business he made of it, devoting his afternoons whole-souled to it, while his partner devoted the mornings.

    When the World Was Young 2010

  • But he had hardened, and at the expense of his old-time, whole-souled geniality.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as you are aware, Watson, but my experience of life has taught me that there are few wives, having any regard for their husbands, who would let any man's spoken word stand between them and that husband's dead body.

    Chennai 2010

  • “He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity,” wrote Twain.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • “He was a roaring, terrific combination of wind and lightning and thunder, and earnest, whole-souled profanity,” wrote Twain.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • If you put it that Mrs. Douglas and Barker know the truth about the murder, and are conspiring to conceal it, then I can give you a whole-souled answer.

    Chennai 2010

  • From his passing carriage he kissed both hands to her—a “whole-souled greeting, as the saying is.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • From his passing carriage he kissed both hands to her—a “whole-souled greeting, as the saying is.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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