"whole-handedly" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Head templates: {{en-adv|?}} whole-handedly
  1. (uncommon) With one's whole hand or hands; (figuratively) comprehensively. Tags: uncommon Synonyms: wholehandedly
    Sense id: en-whole-handedly-en-adv-CWwFG7nh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1924, Arthur Henry Bullen, Elizabethans:",
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          "ref": "1950, Crichton Porteous, Derbyshire:",
          "text": "[…] and when touched are grabbed whole-handedly. A friend who is an expert says there is more skill in this than in fishing with fly, but I fancy that those who use rod and line will not agree.",
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          "text": "Indeed, the record convinces the court that the government whole-handedly controls and blatantly influences EMMES' action with respect to disclosure of the documents.",
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          "ref": "2004, Edward Bruce Ford, Jean Giono's Hidden Reality, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Naïve, with the grace of a virgin playing at stirring up the flowers of an almond tree, she raised, whole-handedly, the scented froth of her intimate apparel. A wave of painful joy ran through Duvauchelle.",
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        "(uncommon) With one's whole hand or hands; (figuratively) comprehensively."
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