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wholeness|ˈhəʊlnɪs|
[f. whole a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being whole.
1. Soundness, freedom from injury; unimpaired state, integrity. Now rare and associated with other senses.
c1000in Archiv für das Stud. d. neu. Spr. CXXI. 46 Willende & nellende, on ᵹesundfulnysse & on þan halnesse. [1340: see yholnesse.] c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. pr. iv. 127 (Camb. MS.) Þou weenyst þat it be diuerse fro the hoolnesse of science, þat any man sholde deme a thing to ben oother weys thanne it is it self. 1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. xii. 103 Holnes..of mynde, redynes of wyll,..in holy saules, suffyrs þame not dedly to synne. 1443–9Pecock Donet x. (1921) 154 Þilk hool [3rd] comaundement in his ful hoolnes is reuokid, ȝhe, and forboden. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 229 Neyther the godhed was mynysshed in the sonne ne the holenesse of the maydenhod in the mother. c1460Oseney Reg. 30 To be holde and to be had,..with all the integrite or hoolenysse in the which William of Saynte John..all þe foresaide thynges had and holde.
1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. (1884) 336 Holiness, that is..wholeness. 1885American IX. 229 Rossa has too much regard for the wholeness of his skin to run that kind of a risk.
2. The character of having nothing wanting, or of having all its parts in due connexion; completeness, perfection; unbroken or undivided state; the quality of constituting a complex unity.
(ME. all hoolenesse is f. all hool + nesse.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. cxvi. (1495) mm j b/1 All hoolenesse [orig. totalitas] and perfightnesse longyth to one & vnite. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 279 The thynges seide..be seyde by anticipation, that the hollenesse of the story may be conservede. 1550Veron Godly Sayings D iij, He dydde both geue vnto vs an wholsom refection of his body, and of his bloud, and also did brieflie assoil that hard question of his wholnes. 1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 95 The wholenesse and substaunce of Baptime doth consist in two things,..the Word and the Element. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 108 Those bedightings or affections that belong to it, as having parts; of which the wholeness..was one. 1744Harris Three Treat. ii. ii. (1765) 64 note, As far as Perplexity and Confusion may be avoided, and the Wholeness of the Piece may be preserved clear and intelligible. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 265 A book of tales,..without drift or wholeness of design: all is episode. 1849Rock Ch. Fathers I. iii. 246 The unbroken wholeness of this stone was a symbol of the unbrokenness of the Church. 1877Tennyson Harold i. ii. 114 Peace-lover is our Harold for the sake Of England's wholeness. 1886― Locksley Hall 60 Yrs. After 101 Sweet St. Francis of Assisi..He that in his Catholic wholeness used to call the very flowers Sisters, brothers.
b. The totality or total amount of something (obs.); something complete or unified (rare): = whole n. 1, 2.
a1340Hampole Ps. cxxxvi. 8 Of þe & in þe..is þe hoolnes of my ioy. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. A 4, These Three..taken all together, make up the Wholeness and Entireness of..The True Intellectual System of the Universe. 1856Hawthorne Engl. Note-bks. (1870) II. 191 What shapeless and ragged utterances Englishmen are content to put forth, without attempting anything like a wholeness. |