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Noun

sum-total (plural sum-totals)

  1. Alternative form of sum total
    1. Total.
      • 1855, Ira Mayhew, A Practical System of Book-Keeping by single and double entry:
        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.
      • 1871, Charles Sumner, The Duel Between France and Germany, →ISBN:
        The armies of the two, embracing regular trrops and those subject to call, did not differ much in numbers, unless we set aside the "Almanach de Gotha,", which puts the military force of France somewhat vaguely at 1,350,000, while that of North Germany is only 977,262, to which must be added 49,949 for Bavaria, 34,953 for Wuertemberg, and 43,703 for Baden, making a sum-total of 1,105,867.
      • 2004, John Putnam Demos, Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England, →ISBN:
        Note that the sample size is less than the sum-total of Whethersfield family-heads in 1668.
      • 2014, Leo graf Tolstoy, Childhood, →ISBN:
        Consequently the sum-total that you ought to have in hand soon is how much? 12,000 roubles. Is that right?"
    2. Entirety.
      • 1887, R.G. Moulton, “On Othello as a Type of Plot”, in Publications of the New Shakspere Society, page 431:
        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.
      • 1992, Raymond Bradley, The Nature of All Being: A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism, →ISBN:
        If I am right, Wittgenstein's claim, "The sum-total of reality is the world" (2.063), which has mystified many, amounts to the assertion that the actual world is the sum-total of all realities, that is, facts.
      • 2012 -, E.E. Kleist, Judging Appearances, →ISBN:
        Complete determination demands a comparison of the thing with the sum-total of all possible predicates.
      • 2012, Nathan Rotenstreich, Time and Meaning in History, →ISBN, pages 97–98:
        The latter assumption is not entirely without justification; for if one defines "history" as the sum-total of human events, and “society” as the sum-total of myriads of human beings and their activities, then one may claim that, insofar as they both designate sum-totals, the two terms are interchangeable.
    3. Epitome.
      • 1869, W. Weldon Champneys, Things New and Old: Sermons preached at St. Paul's and St. Pancras, page 38:
        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.
      • 2006, Yitzhak Ben Aaron Levy, Yeshua, →ISBN, page 81:
        She then shared her idolatrous image with Adam, who represented the sum-total of God's creation.
      • 2012, Thomas Troward, My Essential Writings, →ISBN:
        ...principle of the Negative which culminates in Death as the sum-total of all limitations, and which introduces at every step those restrictions which are of the nature of Death, because their tendency is to curtail the outflowing fulness of Life.

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