Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WHOLE'SALE
WHOLE'SALE, n. [whole and sale.]
- Sale of goods by the piece or large quantity; as distinguished from retail. Some traders sell either by wholesale or retail.
- The whole mass. Some from vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale. – Watts.
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