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allness

[ awl-nis ]

/ ˈɔl nɪs /

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noun

the quality or state of universality or totality.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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Origin of allness

First recorded in 1645–55; all + -ness

Words nearby allness

allium, alliumphobia, all joking aside, all kinds of, allmouth, allness, all-night, all-nighter, allo-, Alloa, alloantibody

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Example sentences from the Web for allness

Where neither whole nor parts, but unity, as boundless or endless allness—the Sublime.
Biographia Epistolaris Volume 2|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When Josè met Carmen she was holding steadfastly to her vision––the immanence and allness of God.
Carmen Ariza|Charles Francis Stocking
Bring your whole confidence, your trust, your knowledge of the allness of good, and the nothingness of evil.
Carmen Ariza|Charles Francis Stocking
He loved his enemies with a love that understood the allness of God, and the consequent nothingness of the human concept.
Carmen Ariza|Charles Francis Stocking

His difficulty was that, having proclaimed the allness of spirit, God, he had proceeded to bow the knee to evil.
Carmen Ariza|Charles Francis Stocking

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