a. [f. FULL a. + HEART + -ED2.] Having a full heart. a. Full of courage and confidence; hence of a work: Carried on with zeal. b. Full of feeling; indicative of strong emotion. Hence Full-heartedly adv.

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1611.  Shaks., Cymb., V. iii. 7.

                    The Enemy full-hearted,
Lolling the Tongue with slaught’ring.

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1851.  Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi, 31. The sky above … seemed to … palpitate in glory, like a dove Who has flown too fast, full-hearted.

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1859.  Smiles, Self-Help, xii. (1860), 323. The most effective work is always the full-hearted work.

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1876.  Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., IV. lxiii. 240. He left the house at Chelsea in full-hearted silence under the effect of Mirah’s farewell look and words.

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1882.  J. L. Ludlow, in Homilet. Monthly, May, 451. For you he lived … and sends his Holy Spirit as full-heartedly as if there were no other human being.

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