单词 | the whole of |
释义 | > as lemmasthe whole of b. the whole of: the entirety of; all.Less commonly with a plural noun or pronoun in the dependent phrase, and now chiefly when this has collective denotation (e.g. the whole of the Americas) or when referring to the entirety of each item (e.g. they served the whole of their sentences). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] everydeala1300 universityc1384 universal?c1400 the whole ofc1450 alpha and omega1526 entire1597 be-alla1616 all1619 totalitya1631 all-hood1722 entirety1856 totalnessc1864 c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 201 Ȝif þou..kepyst treccherously in pryuite stolyn thynges or oþere thinges falsly get..þou art bounde to restore þe hole of þat good. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. S.vv Breuelye to conclude the whole of this matter. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xix. f. xcv But the whole of all these mischiefes doeth redounde to hym that is the refuser and caster of. 1568 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Dial Princes (rev. ed.) i. i. f. 1 By his Epistles and doctrine, the whole of this presente woorke is proued. 1650 Plea for Non-Subscribers 21 In direct contradiction to what the whole of that Estate..had before Voted and Declared to all the world. 1699 T. Edwards Paraselene dismantled of her Cloud Introd. p. vii The whole of both Covenants..are founded upon their different or distinct, substitutive and representative Person or Headship. 1705 J. Gordon Diary 18 May (1949) 144 The whole of what I owed him first & last amounted to 14 lib. 15 sh. 3d. 1791 T. Willis Let. 27 Oct. in G. Washington Papers (2000) Presidential Ser. IX. 125 A 74 Gun Ship..;can fight the whole of her Guns from one or both..Sides of the Ship. 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 16 Aug. 430 In the whole of my ride, I have not seen much finer fields of wheat. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 13 The whole of the gentlemen of the hunt. 1894 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games I. 388 The whole of the alphabet has been gone through. 1933 D. Thomas Let. 15 Oct. (1987) 28 Tell 'em you've got more in your little finger than they have in the whole of their fact-crammed brains. 1957 P. J. Darlington Zoogeogr. ii. 58 The whole of the Ostariophysi may have radiated from the Old World tropics. 1988 L. Ellmann Sweet Desserts 124 He wanted the whole of me. 2004 P. J. Conradi Going Buddhist 103 The wrong-doings of individuals cannot, he argued, affect the whole of Buddhism. < as lemmas |
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