[f. COMPLETE a. + -NESS.] The state or quality of being complete.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., xl. (Arb.), 61. One whom two or three Countries make up to this compleatnesse.
1648. Eikon Bas., 47. I cannot allow their wisdom such a compleatness and inerrability as to exclude myself.
1725. Watts, Logic, I. vi. § 7. This … goes to make up the Compleatness of any Subject.
1799. Han. More, Fem. Educ. II. xix. 287. There is a wholeness, an integrity, a completeness in the Christian character.
1870. Max Müller, Sc. Relig. (1873), 107. Few critical scholars could master them in their completeness.
1886. Froude, Oceana, ii. 31. A completeness of proof which can leave no room for doubt.
