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单词 all-embracing
释义

all-embracingadj.

Brit. /ˌɔːlᵻmˈbreɪsɪŋ/, /ˌɔːlɛmˈbreɪsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɔləmˌbreɪsɪŋ/, /ˈɑləmˌbreɪsɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adv., English embracing , embrace v.2
Etymology: < all adv. + embracing, present participle of embrace v.2
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).
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