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[hohl] / hoʊl /






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Quoting Alexander Hamilton, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg observed, “’The United States and its constituent States, unlike foreign nations, are ‘kindred systems, parts of ONE WHOLE.’

From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025

Like every organism every true work of art has organic unity; it represents a unit of thought, the WHOLE, made up of essential PARTS.

From Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 by Emerson, Charles Wesley

Every part of every thing bears an exact correspondence to that thing AS A WHOLE.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

UNIT, OR WHOLE: The beneficence of rain after a drought.

From Evolution of Expression — Volume 1 by Emerson, Charles Wesley

What more is contained in that maxim, than what the signification of the word TOTUM, or the WHOLE, does of itself import?

From An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by Locke, John




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