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Definition of Halfheartedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfheartedness
Literary usage of Halfheartedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1902)
"The memory of such a man puts to shame all indolence, hesitation and halfheartedness,
and lays its appeal for an earnest and devoted life. ..."
2. New Wars for Old: Being a Statement of Radical Pacifism in Terms of Force by John Haynes Holmes (1916)
"... fails not because of its own essential falsity, but because of the weakness,
timidity, halfheartedness of those who strive to put it into practice. ..."
3. A Crisis of the Weimar Republic: A Study of the German Referendum of 20 June by Franklin C. West (1985)
"Exposing the "halfheartedness" and "deceits" of the Social Democratic leadership
was, it scarcely needs saying, a regular practice of the Communists. ..."
4. Great Books by Frederic William Farrar (1898)
"Put sadness away from thee; for truly sadness is the sister of halfheartedness
and bitterness. He that is sad doth always wickedly; first because he maketh ..."
5. Babel and Bible: Two Lectures on the Significance of Assyriological Research by Friedrich Delitzsch (1903)
"... halfheartedness, contradiction, let alone worse features, of the evangelical
orthodoxy displayed towards the questions raised by Babel and Bible. ..."
6. Annual Convention by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1904)
"... and fought for by Isaac M. Wise and our other great leaders signifies, the
people will fall into line ; let there be no wavering, no halfheartedness, ..."
7. Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof by Markus Baum (1998)
"... rules and halfheartedness. He said that just as he had reunited with Emmy,
the two becoming one, and just as the Hutterites in America had bound ..."
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