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perˈvading, ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ing2.] That pervades, or runs through.
1732Pope Ess. Man i. 31 Of this frame the bearings [etc.] has thy pervading soul Look'd thro'? 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. ix. 32 The preliminary and pervading assumption of these pages. 1871Smiles Charac. ii. (1876) 40 A pervading atmosphere of cheerfulness, contentment, and peace. Hence perˈvadingly adv., in a pervading manner; perˈvadingness.
1851Kitto Bible Illustr. (1858) III. 122 The Eastern mind is so pervadingly regal that to be without a sovereign is scarcely an intelligible state of things to an Oriental. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. ii. 64 An inner self into which..evil penetrates so constantly and so pervadingly. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 64 In the matter of omnipresence,—or, rather, all-pervadingness,—he possesses it indeed. |