Definition of Entirety

1. Noun. The state of being total and complete. "Appalled by the totality of the destruction"


Definition of Entirety

1. n. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest.

Definition of Entirety

1. Noun. wholeness; fullness; the whole. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entirety

1. completeness [n -TIES] - See also: completeness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entirety

entier
entierly
entierties
entierty
entification
entifications
entire
entire function
entire functions
entire leaf
entirely
entireness
entirenesses
entires
entireties
entirety (current term)
entise
entisol
entisols
entitative
entitatively
entitic
entities
entitize
entitized
entitizes
entitizing
entitle
entitled
entitlement

Literary usage of Entirety

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychologic Foundations of Education: An Attempt to Show the Genesis of the by William Torrey Harris (1898)
"Aristotle's works, taken as a whole, are an attempt to seize the facts of the world in their entirety—each fact in its entirety; and he finds that the ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Annotation—Judgment against individual as lien on interest of tenant by entirety. The note supplements notes on the same subject appended to Jordan v. ..."

3. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1904)
"(b) entirety of Parts : General Principle, aa applied to Admissions, ... In the third place, the single case in which entirety of Parts is clearly required, ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1890)
"Continuing, he says: "One of my objections to establishing or recognizing estates in entirety in this state is, that it is not in consonance with our laws ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elementary Exposition of the by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1893)
"Continuous breach of contract or infraction of rights not an entirety. 126. ... 138. Tortious act not an entirety as to parties injured. ..."

6. The Law of Persons, Or, Domestic Relations by Epaphroditus Peck (1913)
"A. Tenancy by the entirety. Not only the theoretical unity of person, but also the practical unity of possession and enjoyment, of husband and wife, ..."

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