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Entireness

Entireness \En*tire"ness\, n.

  1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

    This same entireness or completeness.
    --Trench.

  2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.]

    Entireness in preaching the gospel.
    --Udall.

  3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [Obs.]

    True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness.
    --Bp. Hall.

Entireness

Entirety \En*tire"ty\, n.; pl. Entireness. [OF. entieret['e]. Cf. Integrity.]

  1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.
    --Blackstone.

  2. That which is entire; the whole.
    --Bacon.

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entireness

n. entirety

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entireness

n. the state of being total; "appalled by the totality of the destruction" [syn: entirety, totality]

Usage examples of "entireness".

In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others, which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible.

Therefore since the nature of the soul is rent and passes away and does not at one time stand forth in its entireness, it must be reckoned mortal.