sum-total

Noun

sum-total (plural sum-totals)

1. 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.1855, Ira Mayhew, A Practical System of Book-Keeping by single and double entry
   • 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...1871, Charles Sumner, The Duel Between France and Germany, →ISBN
2. 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.1887, R.G. Moulton, “On Othello as a Type of Plot”, in Publications of the New Shakspere Society, page 431
   • 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.1992, Raymond Bradley, The Nature of All Being: A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism, →ISBN
3. 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.1869, W. Weldon Champneys, Things New and Old: Sermons preached at St. Paul's and St. Pancras, page 38
   • She then shared her idolatrous image with Adam, who represented the sum-total of God's creation.2006, Yitzhak Ben Aaron Levy, Yeshua, →ISBN, page 81