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Definition of Wholly
Wholly

In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.

To the exclusion of other things; totally; fully.

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Wholly Quotations

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mohandas Gandhi

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Wholly Translations

wholly in Afrikaans is heeltemal
wholly in Dutch is helemaal, heel, finaal
wholly in Finnish is aivan
wholly in Italian is interamente
wholly in Latin is penitus, plene, omnino
wholly in Spanish is enteramente
wholly in Swedish is alldeles, helt


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