单词 | all-embracing |
释义 | all-embracingadj. That includes, encompasses, or applies to everything or everyone. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive largea1400 wide1534 capable1592 inclusive1604 comprehensive1614 all-comprehensive1650 complexive1654 diffused1658 comprehensional1673 perileptic1678 all-encompassing1805 unexcluding1822 widish1845 all-embracing1847 unexclusive1852 all-inclusive1858 broad1872 embracive1897 periscopic1912 wide-angle1932 umbrella1949 c1605 in J. Lyly Wks. (1902) III. 493 The thundringe God whose all-embracinge powre Circles ye modell of this spatious rounde. a1687 H. More Disc. Script. (1692) xi. 350 The Will and Nature of God, which is Goodness it self and all-embracing Love. 1754 T. Blacklock Poems 144 All-embracing arch Of heav'n. 1847 J. D. Morell Hist. View Speculative Philos. (ed. 2) I. 15 Researches..so wide and all-embracing in their extent. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 424 We are left after all, it will be urged,..walled in within the all-embracing delusions of those ideas. 1935 Burlington Mag. Nov. 235/1 Art, which, like human nature, should be all-embracing in its scope. 2005 H. Mantel Beyond Black vii. 229 They were hardly men at all..and she despised them with an impartial, all-embracing spite. Derivatives all-emˈbracingness n. ΚΠ 1860 Sat. Analyst & Leader 25 Aug. 751/2 It was this arrogance and all-embracingness of logicians that retarded the advent of inductive philosophy. 1989 Times 19 Aug. 10/3 It is an attitude manifested not just by doctrinal comprehensiveness but by social ‘all-embracingness’. 2005 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 16 June 12 It's the breadth of that talent, the vast imagination, the sheer all-embracingness of his musicality that astounds, impresses and haunts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c1605 |
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