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

It is finely placed, and all the parts are admirable: but I think it wants completeness and entireness of effect, and does not tell its story well.

From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

There have been many acute essays upon his minor characteristics; but intellectual criticism has never grappled with Shaksperian ART in its entireness and grandeur, and probably it never will.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

The entireness and simplicity of life is flawed by the intrusion of an inquisitive element, and this inquisitive element never yet found anything which was much worth the finding.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

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

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