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

And I clung to him with an entireness of confidence, a fulness of gratitude that swelled my heart almost to bursting.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

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

Alec thought his mother's opinion the more to be approved, and Kate's the more to be admired; showing the lack of entireness in his nature, by thus dissociating the good and the admirable.

From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George

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

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