Adverb

(-)

Without exception; wholly; completely.

* 1891 , , The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches,"

Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}

On the whole; with everything considered.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 10, author=Jeremy Wilson

, title=tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report, work=Telegraph citation , passage=A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward. }}