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entire
English
Alternative forms
- intire (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tang? (“touch”). Doublet of integer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Adjective
entire (not comparable)
- (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
- (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
- (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
- (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ?.
- (of a male animal) Not gelded.
- morally whole; pure; sheer
- Internal; interior.
Derived terms
- entirety
Related terms
- integrity
- integrate
Translations
Noun
entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)
- (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
- In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:
- ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
- An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
- He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
- (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
- Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.
Translations
Anagrams
- entier, in-tree, nerite, triene
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blameless
English
Etymology
From Middle English blameles, equivalent to blame +? -less.
Adjective
blameless (comparative more blameless, superlative most blameless)
- Free from blame; without fault; innocent
- Synonym: guiltless
- Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof.
Synonyms
- sackless
Derived terms
- blamelessly
- blamelessness
Translations
References
- blameless in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- blameless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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