| 单词 | in its entireness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin its entireness 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. < as lemmas |
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