Literary notes about Entirety (AI summary)
The word "entirety" in literature is often employed to stress a sense of wholeness or completeness, whether referring to texts, experiences, or abstract ideas. For instance, it emphasizes the comprehensive nature of a work when a text is presented in its entirety, as seen in [1] and [2]. At times, it underscores the limitations of perception or engagement, as when Helen Keller notes she can touch only a part of the world rather than its entirety [3]. The term also finds use in analytical critiques, highlighting the need to consider cultural or scientific phenomena as a whole—seen in discussions about literature’s narrow themes [4] or in examining the full extent of social constructs [5]. Thus, "entirety" functions as a linguistic tool that encapsulates the idea of completeness, inviting readers to consider both the sum of its parts and the significance of engaging with something fully, as further illustrated in [6], [7], and [8].
- As the text is not long, it is printed here in its entirety.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - And, to complete the case, the book has been photographed in its entirety and its facsimile herewith published.
— from Doctrina Christiana - That is to say, I can never touch the world in its entirety; indeed, I touch less of it than the portion that others see or hear.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller - From anything like a cosmical point of view, the entirety of imaginative literature's themes and results as we get them to-day seems painfully narrow.
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - It is the myth in its entirety which is alone important: its parts are only of interest in so far as they bring out the main idea.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - (5) "All international agreements and treaties of every kind must be made known in their entirety to the rest of the world."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The Sāmaveda was thus the first of the Vedas to be edited in its entirety.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell - That will naturally lead to merely one-sided judgment and anyway be much harder than keeping the whole man in eye and studying him as an entirety.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
