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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
entirety
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the 1994 matches will be televised live in their entirety, officials said.
▪ He could not support the motion in its entirety.
▪ However, the name he was looking for was there in its entirety.
▪ It surely ought to consider moving its operations to the Strand in their entirety.
▪ Of the sections I read in their entirety the coverage is somewhat variable.
▪ They directly affect the entirety of social relations in different societies.
▪ Under current law, the president is required to either sign or veto in its entirety any legislation that reaches his desk.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Entirety

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
entirety

also entierty, mid-14c., enterete, intierty, from Anglo-French entiertie, Old French entiereté "totality, entirety; integrity, purity," from Latin integritatem (nominative integritas) "completeness, soundness, integrity," from integer (see integer).

Wiktionary
entirety

alt. wholeness; fullness; the whole. n. wholeness; fullness; the whole.

WordNet
entirety

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

Usage examples of "entirety".

And once drawn to her, Georgia was utterly convinced they would remain to devour her backlist in its entirety.

One had collapsed in its entirety, the one that Buford pointed out had once housed the finest cryology unit in the northeast.

The Baron scoured the entirety of the vessel, from the Supercritical Harrow Tank to the Debasing Pods, and not only did the Baron not find Madeline, the Ethyls appeared to be missing, too.

Ion engines pushed the comsats into geostationary orbit, positioning them to give complete coverage of the planet, with overlapping reception footprints covering Amarisk in its entirety.

The old fop hadna so much as dared look at another lad again or venture above the second-floor landing during the entirety of his residence.

For hell in its entirety is nothing but the form of all the lusts of evil, and no one lust in it is quite similar to or the same as another, nor can be to eternity.

Somebody ought to do a book of pulp-magazine ads, reproduce the screwiest ones in their entirety.

Massive bruises adorned his arms, gravestones of venipunctures, and the entirety of his right hip, where the biopsy had been performed, was an angry gathering of blue-black blood.

While no law requires that police interviews with citizens be recorded, police organizations in Arkansas won passage of legislation requiring that if an officer is questioned by police, that interview or interrogation must be recorded in its entirety.

In each of these eyes, formed in the axils of the leaves, the power of the plant is present in its entirety, very much as in each single seed.

There were plenty of reports that quoted it, but now Celia wanted to read the proceedings in their entirety.

It will be interesting to discuss how far some of these movements may not become confluent with others and by a mere process of logical completion identify themselves consciously with the Open Conspiracy in its entirety.

I must begin by telling him my plan in its entirety, and then I shall have to find a way to give him the bar.

I uil V arui-iic, ana said, "IV, Save those soldiers guarding prisoners, the entirety of the Kingdom'sArmy of the West stood at attention as the wagon carrying Greylock's body rolled south.

Mary Catherine picked up the remote control again and wandered up and down the electromagnetic spectrum, catching glimpses of fishing shows, Home Shopping Network, Weather Channel, and Star Trek before finally locating C-SPAN, which was playing Dad's speech back in its entirety.