单词 | entireness |
释义 | entirenessn. The quality, state, or condition of being entire. 1. Wholeness, completeness; undiminished, unbroken, or undivided condition. in its entireness: as a whole. Of qualities, states, actions, etc.: Thoroughness, fullness, perfectness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [noun] wholeness?c1400 entirety1548 entireness1605 integrality1611 entire1622 1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. N2 To reprint them in their first intirenesse. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee4 A steme [of a tree]..hath a dimension and quantitie of entyrenes and continuance, before it come to discontinue & break it self into Armes. View more context for this quotation 1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth xviii. 124 One is sicke of his neighbour field, whose mishapen angels..hinder his Lordship of entirenes. a1671 S. Mather Irenicum (1680) 11 A Church in an Island..must not be denyed intireness of Jurisdiction within itself. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 71 The evenness and entireness of the edge. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1842) II. 325 They come to attack your king..together with the entireness of the empire. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 159 That satisfying entireness, that complete adequateness of the manner to the matter which so charms us in Anacreon. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism iii. 49 That entireness of sympathy with all others. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic 7 We can more easily grasp it in thought, and contemplate it at once in its entireness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > intimacy privitya1250 nearnessc1485 familiarness1539 inwardness1578 greatnessa1586 privatenessa1586 entireness1599 habitude1612 gossiprya1614 strictnessc1614 mutualitiesa1616 particulara1616 intimity1617 privancy1622 privacy1638 intimacy1641 intimateness1642 familiarity1664 throng1768 closeness1851 close harmony1876 innerliness1888 insociation1893 dearness- 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 171 Their alliance or rather meere entirenesse with Spaine. 1614 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. II. O.T. vi. 160 Whither shall we impute it but to his more intirenesse with God? 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 43 Their entirenesse and inwardnesse with the men of the greatest name. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling ii. §2. 69 That entireness and affection which is the soul of marriage. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [noun] heartliness1435 singleness1526 fidelity1534 unfeignedness1535 sincereness1537 uprightness1541 integrity1548 entireness1549 sincerity1557 reality1616 realty1619 single-heartedness1642 plain-heartedness1647 single-mindedness1833 genuineness1841 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Col. ii. f. iiiiv If I espye your entiernes and godly condicions either to be in ieoperdie or to be inconstant & wauer. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 2 Cor. viii. f. lvv Whose faythe and entyrenesse in preachynge the gospell..is well tryed. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes i. §56. 98 An especiall point of sincerity consisteth in the fore-said intirenesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1549 |
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