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- n. the final aggregate
Examples
“Page 195 woe; its cutting remorse, its too late repentance, its hopeless sights, its bitter memories of earth's sunny hours; with all the thousand sadnesses that go to make up the sum total of a lost eternity!”
“Page 83 culmination was secured not through the sum total of small contributions of the many, but rather by the large contributions of the few, it ought to occasion no surprise when it is here and now stated that the actual and crowning need of Bettis Academy at present is AN ENDOWMENT FUND, which, to be adequate, should amount to $100,000.”
“And then the whole planet, the sum total of every pre-spaceflight Cardassian who had ever lived, warlords and rabble alike, would have returned to the elemental gas from which the planet had condensed in the first place.”
“We have reported for education this quadrennium more than for four quadrenniums put together, that is, the preceding four quadrenniums to this added together will not amount to the sum total to what we have raised this quadrennium for education.”
From Slavery to the Bishopric in the AME Church An Autobiography
“Spix and Martius, for whose journey I wrote, as you doubtless remember, my first work on fishes, brought back from there some fifty species, and the sum total known now, taking the results of all the travelers who have followed up the inquiry, does not amount to two hundred.”
“I know the number of its chapters and versets and sections and words; and its halves and fourths and eighths and tenths; the number of prostrations which occur in it and the sum total of its letters; and I know what there is in it of abrogating and abrogated295; also what parts of it were revealed at Al – Medinah and what at Meccah and the cause of the different revelations.”
“As regards the list of the antediluvians, the Hebrew and Septuagint agree as to the sum total of each patriarch's life, since the Greek version reduces regularly by a hundred years the period between the birth of the first-born and the patriarch's death.”
“: “Sacrilegii et majestatis rei convenimur, summa haec causa, immo tots est” (“We are arraigned for sacrilege and treason; that is the head and front, nay, the sum total of our offence”).”
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
“The results were unambiguous: After analyzing the children for a sum total of “2,129,864 person-years,” the study provided still more “strong evidence against the hypothesis that MMR vaccination causes autism.””
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