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单词 entirety
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entiretyn.

/ɛnˈtʌɪəti//ɛnˈtʌɪərɪti/
Forms: 1500s entiertee, 1600s, 1800s entierty, 1700s entierity, 1800s– entirety. Also 1600s intierty.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman entiertie, Old French entiereté < Latin integritāt-em , < integer : see entire adj., adv., and n.Johnson 1755 has only the form entierty, which continued in legal use into the nineteenth century.
1.
a. The state or condition of being entire; completeness, fullness, integrity, perfection; esp. in phrase in its entirety: in its complete form, as a whole.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun]
wholeness?c1400
entirety1548
entireness1605
integrality1611
entire1622
1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Cvii Deragotorye to the entiertee and fulnes of Christes ones sacrifice.
1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 163 They haue an intirety, a fulnesse in themselues.
1765–9 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (R.) This is the natural and regular consequence of the union and entirety of their interest.
1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 384 Its entirety—its unity, which is so perfect.
1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xv. 181 The Christian Church taken in its entirety.
1878 R. 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 n.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > undivided tenure
entirety1613
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 10 They shall not haue the land by entierties, but by moities ioyntly.
a1626 F. Bacon 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.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 307 A husband, seised jointly with his wife, whether by moieties or entireties.
1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 615 Rayner claims the Entierty of the Church.
1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun]
everydeala1300
universityc1384
universal?c1400
the whole ofc1450
alpha and omega1526
entire1597
be-alla1616
all1619
totalitya1631
all-hood1722
entirety1856
totalnessc1864
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 21 You have the entirety of our outfit.
1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 24 Those other characters must relate..to the entirety of the organism as such.
1885 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 July 20/3 The entirety containing about 26 acres.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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