Definition of Heart and soul

1. Noun. The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience. "The nub of the story"


2. Adverb. With complete faith. "She was with him heart and soul"
Exact synonyms: Body And Soul

Definition of Heart and soul

1. Noun. (idiomatic) The core of a thing; the most essential or important part. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heart And Soul

heart-rending
heart-rendingly
heart-robbing
heart-shaped
heart-shaped pelvis
heart-shaped uterus
heart-spoon
heart-stopping
heart-stoppingly
heart-to-heart
heart-warmer
heart-warming
heart-whole
heart-wounded
heart and lung transplant
heart and soul (current term)
heart aneurysm
heart antigen
heart arrest
heart atrium
heart attack
heart attacks
heart auscultation
heart beat
heart biopsy
heart block
heart blocks
heart breaker
heart catheterization
heart cherry

Literary usage of Heart and soul

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"416) calls the deacon " the bishop's ear and eye and mouth and heart and soul, that the bishop may not be distracted with many cares. ..."

2. Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 by Guy Stanton Ford (1922)
"He was hesitating to join the German cause heart and soul because the interests of Prussia were not fully guaranteed and because the popular uprising made ..."

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