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as a whole
d. as a whole: as a complete thing (rather than in separate parts); as a unity; in its entirety, all together. Also (with reference to a plural noun) as wholes.
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more and lessa1400
by greatc1475
of greatc1503
more and min1578
as a whole1643
1643 A. Steuart Some Observ. & Annot. Apologeticall Narration 29 The whole Militant Church, may be considered (as other things)..either as a Totall, or Totally, as a Whole or wholly.
1691 R. Burthogge Nature Church-govt. iii. 45 The Argument I used loses all its force with you, because..you consider it only in pieces; not as a whole.
1768 W. Gilpin Ess. Prints 2 It [sc. a print] may have an agreeable effect as a whole, and yet be very culpable in its parts.
1797 tr. J. S. Beck Princ. Crit. Philos. ii. ii. 265 He hopes too, that nature, contemplated as a whole and in relation to its substratum, is a moral world-order.
1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 125 No man can pronounce..on the faults of a poem; till he has seen..the beauty of the poem as a Whole.
1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) II. vi. 210 How readily nations, considered as wholes, always yield to the spirit of the time.
1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 697 A close division in the committee might be reversed on appeal to the cabinet as a whole.
2000 Independent on Sunday 23 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 40/3 The attention now drawn to this homophobia means that we miss the crucial importance of hysterophobia in the theory as a whole.
extracted from wholeadj.int.n.adv.
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