I wonder if there is a difference between the words "whole" and "entire". For example, the following sentences: I spent my whole life waiting for you. I spent my entire life wa...
We have the word 'genocide' for killing off an entire race, and plenty of words for killing people based on how they are related to you (fratricide, filicide, et. al.), but looking over the "cide" words on The Phrontistery and the List of types of killing on Wikipedia, I couldn't find a term for systematically killing an entire bloodline.
Word for killing off or attempting to kill off an entire bloodline?
Now, it is still acceptable to place the period outside the quotation marks in this case. However, if the quotation spans the entire sentence from capital letter to fullstop, and/or continues for multiple sentences and comprises a full paragraph, the quotation should enclose the final period.
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In 2003, the New York Times published the opinion piece "A Bug's Death", by Olivia Judson, which uses the term "specicide" and defines it as "the deliberate extinction of an entire species".
Ok, first of all, "No man is an Island, entire on itself" is not a proverb!. It is a poem by John Donne, follow this link for the full poem. Secondly, what you are asking about is a "Quote", when you take a small part of a speech or text and use it to emphasize a point/fact or convey a message, it is called a quote. In the case of your question John Donne's poem ' No Man is an Island '. What ...