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entireness|ɛnˈtaɪənɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality, state, or condition of being entire.
1. Wholeness, completeness; undiminished, unbroken, or undivided condition. in its entireness: as a whole. Of qualities, states, actions, etc.: Thoroughness, fullness, perfectness.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1637) 132 To reprint them in their first entirenesse. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. v. §2 A steme [of a tree] hath a dimension and quantitie of entyrenes and continuance before it come to discontinue and break itself into Armes. 1614Bp. Hall Heaven upon Earth §18 One is sicke of his neighbour's field, whose misshapen angles..hinder his Lordship of entirenesse. 1680S. Mather Iren. 11 A Church in an Island..must not be denyed intireness of Jurisdiction within itself. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 75 The evenness and entireness of the Edge. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. 1842 II. 325 They come to attack your king..together with the entireness of the empire. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 159 That satisfying entireness, that complete adequateness of the manner to the matter which so charms us in Anacreon. 1861Mill Utilit. iii. 49 That entireness of sympathy with all others. 1870Bowen Logic 7 We can more easily grasp it in thought, and contemplate it at once in its entireness.
†2. Wholeness or oneness of feeling with another; close friendship, familiarity, intimacy.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 171 Their alliance or rather meere entirenesse with Spaine. 1612–5Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. vi. i, Whither shall wee impute it, but to his more intyrenesse with God. 1620Horæ Sub. 43 Their entirenesse and inwardnesse with the men of the greatest name. 1673Lady's Call. ii. §2. 69 That entireness and affection which is the soul of marriage.
†3. Wholeness of feeling or thought; integrity, honesty, sincerity. Obs.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. Coloss. ii. 5 If I espye your entiernes and godly condicions either to be in ieoperdie or to be inconstant & wauer. ― 2 Cor. viii. 18 Whose faythe and entyrenesse in preachynge the gospell..is well tryed. 1631Gouge God's Arrows i. §56. 98 An especiall point of sincerity consisteth in the fore-said intirenesse. |