"whole-handedly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1913, The Smith College Monthly",
          "text": "I always knew that a cactus was dangerous, so I said to myself, “'Tis these great spikes one must avoid,\" and threw myself whole-heartedly and whole-handedly into stroking the beautiful green spaces between.",
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          "ref": "1924, Arthur Henry Bullen, Elizabethans",
          "text": "It must, however, be remembered that Dekker and Day had “collaborated: on more than one occasion, and it is open to a generous critic to assume that one of the two writers put his work whole-handedly at the disposal of the other.",
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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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          "ref": "1999, Access Reports/freedom of Information",
          "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",
          "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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        "With one's whole hand or hands; (figuratively) comprehensively."
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        "(uncommon) With one's whole hand or hands; (figuratively) comprehensively."
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          "ref": "1913, The Smith College Monthly",
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          "text": "It must, however, be remembered that Dekker and Day had “collaborated: on more than one occasion, and it is open to a generous critic to assume that one of the two writers put his work whole-handedly at the disposal of the other.",
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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": "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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