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Entireness n.

The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. "This same entireness or completeness."

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. (R.) "Entireness in preaching the gospel."

Oneness; unity; applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. (Obs.) "True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness."

Entirety n. (pl. entireness)

The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.

That which is entire; the whole.

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Etymology of 'Entireness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Entireness" Quotes from Famous Books

... imitations'. 'Gauri', or the Fair, is the name of Parvati, or Devi, when she appears with her husband Siva. On such occasions she is always fair and beautiful. Sankar is another name of Siva, or Mahadeo, or Rudra. On looking into the temple at the statue, a lady expressed her surprise at the entireness as well as the excellence of the figures, while all round had been so much mutilated by the Muhammadans. 'They are quite a different thing from the others', said a respectable old landholder; 'they are ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... from the height of her commanding intellect she can contemplate the force, the tendency, the consequences of her own sentiments—because she is fully sensible of her own situation, and the value of all she concedes—the concession is not made with less entireness and devotion of heart, less confidence in the truth and worth of her lover, than when Juliet, in a similar moment, but without any such intrusive reflections—any check but the instinctive delicacy ...

— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson

... our time has produced. I am afraid that the profession of letters interferes with the elemental feelings of life; and I am afraid, too, that in the majority of cases this interference is not justified by its results. The entireness and simplicity of life is flawed by the intrusion of an inquisitive element, and this inquisitive element never yet found anything which was much worth the finding. Men live by the primal energies of love, faith, imagination; and happily it is not given ...

— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith

... crumbles, it is not sad, but feels rid of so much earth, and feels its independency the surer. Yet these things may hardly be said without a sort of treachery to the relation. The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, ...

— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson