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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Applying to or including everything.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective broad in scope or content.
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- adjective having a
broad scope so as to haveuniversal application
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- adjective broad in scope or content
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Examples
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My totality of thought was precipitated to consciousness in a single all-embracing flash.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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But the dividing wall between the two conditions is curiously permeable, as they often are between other categories of mental illness; they are in fact loose and all-embracing.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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A rather lukewarm description by American standards, but if you really go into a discussion with many Danes I am quite sure most will step away from both outright atheism and all-embracing religion, saying something like "Well, I am sure there is something more but ..."
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For this, we need something absolutely necessary that consequently has all-embracing reality.
Matthew Yglesias » Time to Play This Video Again I Guess 2009
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By means of his all-embracing love and mercy, God tends to the welfare of the universe, including the posthumous realms.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Islamic Notion of Beauty Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2011
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I am a Catholic, and albeit in my adulthood I've come to realize that my religion is not as all-embracing, compassionate, and christian as we sermonize from the pulpit, I can identify with the solace gained from quiet moments of prayer in an empty church.
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The critics were generally positive about the movie, though many felt it piled on so many conspiracy theories and proved so all-embracing in its denouncement of the ways of politics and environmental regulation that viewers might get overwhelmed with details or lost in an explosion of exposes.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011: Lars Von Trier Apologizes and Other Political Scandals Michael Giltz 2011
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Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture.
Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain Arnie Cooper 2010
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The images of his apocalyptic dream life and waking nightmares are mesmerizing, and eventually all-embracing, as the boundaries between reality and dementia blur in what amounts to a psychological thriller.
'50/50': Cheerful Illness Tale, With Relapses Joe Morgenstern 2011
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By means of his all-embracing love and mercy, God tends to the welfare of the universe, including the posthumous realms.
William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: The Islamic Notion of Beauty Ph.D. William C. Chittick 2011
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