Entirety

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Entirety \En*tire"ty\, n.; pl. {Entireness}. [OF. entieret['e].
     Cf. {Integrity}.]
     1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of
        interest. --Blackstone.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. That which is entire; the whole. --Bacon.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  entirety
       n : the state of being total; "appalled by the totality of the
           destruction" [syn: {entireness}, {totality}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "entirety":
     aggregate, all, allness, be-all and end-all, collectiveness,
     collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, embodiment,
     entireness, everything, exhaustiveness, fullness, gross,
     inclusiveness, intactness, integer, integrality, integration,
     integrity, omneity, omnipresence, oneness, organic unity,
     perfection, pervasiveness, plenitude, solidarity, solidity, sum,
     sum total, thoroughness, total, totality, tote, ubiquity, unity,
     universality, whole, wholeness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ENTIRETY, or, ENTIERTIE. This word denotes the whole, in contradistinction 
  to moiety, which denotes the half part. A husband and wife, when jointly 
  seized of land, are seized by entireties and not "pur mie" as joint tenants 
  are. Jacob's Law Dict.; 4 Kent, 362; 2 Kent, 132; Hartv. Johnson, 3 Penna. 
  Law Journ. 350, 357.