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2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely.

To highest God entirely pray.

Spenser.

En*tire"ness (?), n. 1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

This same entireness or completeness.

Trench.

2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.]

Entireness in preaching the gospel.

Udall.

3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [Obs.]

True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness.

Bp. Hall.

En*tire"ty (?), n.; pl. Entireness (#). [OF. entiereté. Cf. Integrity.] 1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone.

2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon.

En"ti*ta*tive (?), a. [See Entity.] Considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances. Ellis. -- En"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv.

En*ti"tle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Entitled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Entitling (?).] [OF. entituler, F. intituler, LL. intitulare, fr. L. in + titulus title. See Title, and cf. Intitule.] 1. To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "Honorable."

That which . . . we entitle patience.

Shak.

2. To give a claim to; to qualify for, with a direct object of the person, and a remote object of the thing; to furnish with grounds for seeking or claiming with success; as, an officer's talents entitle him to command.

3. To attribute; to ascribe. [Obs.]

The ancient proverb . . . entitles this work . . . peculiarly to God himself.

Milton.

Syn. -- To name; designate; style; characterize; empower; qualify; enable; fit.

En*tit"ule (?), v. t. [See Entitle.] To entitle. B. Jonson.

En"ti*ty (?), n.; pl. Entities (#). [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens, entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entité. See Essence, Is.] A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.

Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.

Shairp.

Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.