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单词 all-pervasive
释义

all-pervasiveadj.

Brit. /ˌɔːlpəˈveɪsɪv/, /ˌɔːlpəˈveɪzɪv/, U.S. /ˈɔlpərˈˌveɪsɪv/, /ˈɔlpərˈˌveɪzɪv/, /ˈɑlpərˈˌveɪsɪv/, /ˈɑlpərˈˌveɪzɪv/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: all adv., pervasive adj.
Etymology: < all adv. + pervasive adj. Compare earlier all-pervading adj.
Extending into, spreading through, or occurring or having an effect in, every part of something; present or apparent everywhere.
ΚΠ
1808 Monthly Mag. Oct. 206/2 They were likely to employ an all-pervasive power.
1888 Baptist Missionary Mag. Feb. 44/1 All India is beginning to feel his all-pervasive and all-penetrating and all-transforming glory.
1910 W. James in Hibbert Jrnl. 8 758 There is no complete generalisation,..no all-pervasive unity.
1977 K. Katzner Langs. of World (U.K. ed.) ii. 255 Hawaiian, the indigenous language of the Hawaiian Islands, is steadily losing ground to the all-pervasive influence of English.
1994 J. Hamilton Map of World i. 5 I smelled the warm, sweet, all-pervasive smell of silage.
2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. iii. 49 Although it's [sc. Estuary English is] by no means all-pervasive, its effects on traditional regional speech may be powerful and dynamic.

Derivatives

ˌall-perˈvasiveness n. the quality or state of being all-pervasive.
ΚΠ
1856 United Presbyterian Mag. Feb. 52 An all-pervasiveness in the character of the Christian faith.
1932 W. T. Stace Theory of Knowl. xii. 290 The all-pervasiveness of the categories is what Kant called their universality.
1993 New Scientist 9 Oct. 48/3 The authors appear split in their reactions to post-processualism's adherence to the all-pervasiveness of theory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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