adv. nonce-wd. [f. WHOLE a. or sb. + -WISE.] As a whole, completely, all at once.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 107. If you ask,… Whether it touches secundum se totum or not? Whether wholewise or piecewise?
1880. Lanier, Hymns of Marshes, I. 147. The … sea-rim sinks … wholewise.
