all-embracing

[ awl-em-brey-sing ]

adjective

1. covering or applying to all parts, types, things, or people; all-inclusive or all-encompassing; blanket:

   Revolution, as opposed to reform, is something radical and all-embracing, touching all aspects of society.

Word History and Origins

Origin of all-embracing¹

First recorded in 1820–30

Example Sentences

It was love that opened Cervantes's eye, and it is in all-embracing love that Shakespeare was deficient.

From Project Gutenberg

Look how some lie still clench'd with savages In all-embracing death, their bloody hands Glued in each other's hair!

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If so, we shall have gained an insight into a process of nature which is all-embracing and universal in our experience.

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The great, wide-stretching earth and the all-embracing sky—the birthright of us all—are what I care most to look at.

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These mythological features, however, were combined with the idea of an all-embracing, divine rule of law.

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Related Words

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• perpetual
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