Sum-total

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of sum total.; Total.

    "We first add the sums in the money columns of the credit side of the account, and find they amount to $57 .50, which is the sum-total of all I have received from him."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of sum total.; Entirety.

    "Shakspere's plots are, almost without exception, distinguished by their complexity. The mystery or surprise which makes up the sum-total of many a plot, becomes in Shakspere only one amongst many details."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of sum total.; Epitome.

    "He is the end of creation. "The sum-total of all animals.” He is the great archetype to which all creation has tended, from its first and humblest form, upward and onward through every fresh effort of God's creating power."

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