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allness

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[awl-nis] / ˈɔl nɪs /

noun

  1. the quality or state of universality or totality.


Etymology

Origin of allness

First recorded in 1645–55; all + -ness


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There's a wretch of an ultra-frowsy thing in the Scientific American, 7-298, which we condemn ourselves, if somewhere, because of the oneness of allness, the damned must also be the damning.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

In this oneness of allness, or continuity, the protecting hand strangles; the parental stifles; love is inseparable from phenomena of hate.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

And she has not left it, but continues the ex- planation of the power of Spirit up to its infinite meaning, its allness.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

The student, to whom thoroughness is a question of allness needs mental endurance as a chief virtue; the real student, on the other hand, requires constant exercise of judgment.

From How to Study and Teaching How to Study by Frank M. (Frank Morton) McMurry

But now let us show how all Mrs. Eddy's juggling with words, all her assertions of the goodness of all and the allness of good, do not help her to get rid of evil.

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer

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