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

Their numbers are hard to gauge, as there is no all-embracing definition of what constitutes one.

From Los Angeles Times

A cursive-print sign at the park’s exit bears her all-embracing message: “I will always love you.”

From New York Times

Then again, it would be impossible for a work as voluminous and all-embracing as this one not to have its flaws.

From New York Times

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer best expressed the imagined reach of "the Great Fear," an all-embracing dread of a fiendish conspiracy that supposedly sought to strike at the very foundations of civilized life.

From Salon

“I successfully and independently led a company that gradually expanded into sectors beyond fashion to offer my all-embracing philosophy of lifestyle,” he says.

From The Guardian

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