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

I am to add, that she gave herself to her friendships with an entireness not possible to any but a woman, with a depth possible to few women.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret

No dressmaker had ever played fantastic tricks with it: it was pure and simple in its entireness as it came from the loom.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

But though they cannot preserve its entireness, the manner in which it shall yield to modification is in a great measure at their command.

From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John

Yet He knows,—if the entireness of a gift means anything,—that I have not given with a reserve, that I am yours in my life and soul, for this year and for other years.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert