whole-hardily vs wholeheartedly | Common Errors in English

Wholeheartedly refers to a sincere and genuine gesture shown after similar has been done earlier.

"The professor wholeheartedly embraced the class idea."

Whole hardily on the other hand is a commonly used wrong alternative to wholeheartedly which unacceptable.

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r without reserve; without reservation
he adopted wholeheartedly some of the policies that he had previously criticized

Chautauqua scholar Larry Bounds channels Davy Crockett for festival
Larry Bounds throws himself wholeheartedly into the characters he portrays in the Greenville Chautauqua festival. For Winston Churchill, Bounds explored the statesman's radio speeches and compared them to early Anglo-Saxon poetry. As Albert Einstein, he dressed like the genius, right down to the sockless look that Einstein favored.
June 12, 2013 - The Greenville News
On the trail: Easy fix for some cow-cyclist conflicts
Mountain biking is my passion, and I wholeheartedly support the efforts of the last remaining cattle ranchers in the Roaring Fork Valley, so it pains me that cows and cycling are so often in conflict. I don’t think they need to be.
June 12, 2013 - The Aspen Times
A Pundit's Guide to Edward Snowden Fan Fiction
There is a lot of fan fiction swirling around right now about Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the NSA's programs to collect all phone calls and all email. The NSA's surveillance programs, even if you wholeheartedly support them, are the more important story since it reveals that the government has computing power so awesome that it borders on sci-fi. But pundits prefer the personal and since ...
June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

whole-hardily vs wholeheartedly : Common Errors in English