entireness

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It was in these terms that Bonheur described herself in the interview: “Art is an absorbent — a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body, the entireness of his votary,” she said.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022

No duties and no privileges can be of more importance than the preservation, in all their entireness, of domestic familiarity and faith.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

Does not the entireness of the complex hint at the perfection of the simple?

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

He had given up work, and betaken himself to bed, where he had gradually relapsed into his old belief—accounting for his entireness by the strength alone of the crystal.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various

The charm of a landscape is entireness, unity; it strikes the eye at once and as a whole.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various