单词 | all-explaining |
释义 | > as lemmasall-explaining all-explaining adj. ΚΠ 1817 S. T. Coleridge Let. 28 July (1959) IV. 758 The constituents and explainers of the all-explaining fluids. 1961 T. Woods Poetry & Philos. v. 75 In so far as it [sc. the utilitarian system] claims to be comprehensive and all-explaining. 1987 Los Angeles Times 25 Jan. (Bk. Review section) 8/2 I find it hard to believe in an ‘all-knowing God’ or an ‘all-explaining, ultimate’ scientific system, and thus cannot accept this excuse. 2003 S. Choi Amer. Woman (2004) 283 Radicalism, Jenny thought sometimes, was like Catholicism, with its..strict liturgy, its all-explaining view of the world, its absolute Satan. < as lemmas |
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