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entirety|ɛnˈtaɪətɪ, ɛnˈtaɪərɪtɪ|
Forms: 6 entiertee, 7, 9 entierty, 8 entierity, 9– entirety. Also 7 intierty.
[ad. AF. entiertie, OF. entiereté:—L. integritāt-em, f. integer: see entire.
Johnson 1755 has only the form entierty, which continued in legal use into the nineteenth century.]
1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness, fullness, integrity, perfection; esp. in phrase in its entirety: in its complete form, as a whole.
1548Gest Pr. Masse 89 Deragotorye to the entiertee and fulnes of Christes ones sacrifice. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 163 They haue an intirety, a fulnesse in themselues. 1765–9Blackstone Comm. (R.), This is the natural and regular consequence of the union and entirety of their interest. 1847J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 259 Its entirety—its unity, which is so perfect. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xv. 181 The Christian Church taken in its entirety. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 183 All chance of fulfilling it [his religious mission] in its entirety had passed away for ever.
b. Law. The entire or undivided possession of an estate; esp. in phrase by entireties, when two parties are jointly seised of a whole estate, and neither is exclusive possessor of a part. Cf. moiety.
1613Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 10 They shall not haue the land by entierties, but by moities ioyntly. a1626Bacon Office of Alienations (R.), Sometimes the attorney..setteth down an entierty, where but a moiety, a third, or fourth part only was to be passed. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 615 Rayner claims the Entierty of the Church. 1818Cruise Digest V. 356 A husband seised jointly with his wife, whether by moieties or entireties. 1858Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Property Law ii. 7 A purchaser cannot be compelled, even in equity, to take an undivided part of an estate..if he contracted for the entirety.
2. The whole; the sum total.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. i. 21 You have the entirety of our outfit. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 24 Those other characters must relate..to the entirety of the organism as such. 1885Times (weekly ed.) 10 July 20/3 The entirety containing about 26 acres. |