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  • noun The state or characteristic of being unwhole.

Etymologies

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unwhole +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The religious sense he defines as "the feeling of unwholeness, of moral imperfection, of sin, to use the technical word, accompanied by the yearning after the peace of unity."

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • Sin is incompletion, immaturity, unwholeness, ignorance, as well as the violation of some understood and accepted moral code.

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888

  • The religious sense he defines as "the feeling of unwholeness, of moral imperfection, of sin, to use the technical word, accompanied by the yearning after the peace of unity."

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

  • I understand and respect your view of homosexuality as "[indicating] areas of unwholeness, areas of unfulfilled need, areas of hearts yet to be restored".

    kingdom grace 2009

  • Both indicate areas of unwholeness, areas of unfulfilled need, areas of hearts yet to be restored.

    kingdom grace 2009

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