En*tire"ness (?), n.

1.

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

This same entireness or completeness. Trench.

2.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.

[R.]

Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

3.

Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.

[Obs.]

True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall.

 

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