No man is an Island, entire of itself From an excerpt by Francis Bacon (1561-1626). What does the line mean? Does it count as a proverb?
the entire garden field There's nothing else entire could really be modifying here. The collision with little makes it awkward in its normal position (the entire, little garden field), since it's such a different function from the other adjective. One is describing the field itself while the other is qualifying the portion of the field walked over.
What part of speech is the word "entire" in "over the little garden ...
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 ...
Meaning of the proverb: "No man is an island entire of itself"
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.