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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) iv. pr. vi. l. 3965 Wheþer men lyuen now in swiche hoolnesse of þouȝt. as who seiþ. ben men now so wise. þat swiche folk as þei demen to ben goode folk or shrewes þat it mot nedes ben þat folk ben swiche as þei wenen.

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 101 Þen ben þei [sc. the words] spoken in soþfastnes, & in hoelnes [v.r. holynesse] of voyce, & of þeire spirit þat speken hem.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 279 The thynges seide..be seyde by anticipacion, that the hollenesse [L. integritas] of the story may be conservede.

1550 J. Veron Godly Saiyngs sig. D.iii 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.

1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 95 The wholenesse and substaunce of Baptime doth consist in two things,..the Word and the Element.

1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar 235 That wholenesse of truth which the lawes of historie doe exact.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 108 Those bedightings or affections that belong to it, as having parts; of which the wholeness..was one.

1744 J. Harris Three Treat. ii. ii. 64 (note) As far as Perplexity and Confusion may be avoided, and the Wholeness of the Piece may be preserved clear and intelligible.

1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies vii. 94 At the further end of this temple are three gigantic figures..in a tolerable state of preservation and wholeness, considering the remoteness of their antiquity.

1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry I. 265 A book of tales,..without drift or wholeness of design: all is episode.

1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold i. ii. 28 Peace-lover is our Harold for the sake Of England's wholeness.

1886 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 16 Sweet St. Francis of Assisi,..He that in his Catholic wholeness used to call the very flowers Sisters, brothers.

1963 Asian Folklore Stud. 22 87 The puer aeternus, in his fusion of weakness and strength, seems to represent the wholeness which comes from the union of opposites.

1991 L. Cary Black Ice 233 I wanted an image of wholeness, inclusion: moving circles that come together, overlap, drift apart.

2009 Jrnl. Irish Stud. 24 103 The purpose of the individuation process is to achieve a personal sense of wholeness.

a1681 H. Burton Disc. (1685) II. 23 Our whole Man will be in Exercise; the Understanding directing, the Will complying and following the Guidance, and the executive Powers moving in obedience to the Will as they ought. This maintains an integrity or wholeness in us.

1775 W. Cooke Elem. Dramatic Crit. Introd. p. iv Giving a wholeness to the design.

1793 T. Taylor in tr. Plato Parmenides Introd. in tr. Plato Cratylus 278 Unity, power, and being are contained in this third triad; but then each of these is multiplied, and so the whole triad is a wholeness.

1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 21 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 175 What shapeless and ragged utterances Englishmen are content to give vent to—without attempting anything like a shape or a wholeness.

1866 E. S. Dallas Gay Sci. I. viii. 271 I..ask the reader to bear with me for a few pages more while I dwell in succession on the likenesses and on the wholenesses of imagery.

1924 L. Abercrombie Theory of Poetry 100 Words have their straightforward meaning, which can organise itself into a wholeness of significance.

1975 J. Gibbs in J. R. Meyer et al. Values Educ. 59 Instead of assuming irreducible wholenesses in behavior, mechanistic theorists regard behavior as dissociable.

2001 Guardian 13 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 24/3 Gestaltists believe that we are wired as human beings to make sense of the world and to create a wholeness or a complete picture of experience and feelings.