单词 | all-pervading |
释义 | all-pervadingadj. = all-pervasive adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent > that is everywhere all-pervading1765 omniprevalent1845 1765 Strictures Comm. & Conf. Rev. Mr. Dodd 22 Is an external superficial motion an internal all-pervading one? 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad x. 375 Her cloudless ken, her all pervading soul Illume, sublime and harmonize the whole. 1882 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant (new ed.) II. 131 I see traces of this all-pervading truth. 1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 29 712 Enough instances could be easily cited to show the all-pervading economic influence of standards of value contrary to those of the free market. 1971 L. Beckwith About my Father's Business (1973) xii. 144 I could smell its all-pervading smell, rich and spicy and appetite-pricking. 2006 Mojo Dec. 104/4 A subtle, all-pervading sense of menace. Derivatives ˌall-perˈvadingness n. = all-pervasiveness n. at all-pervasive adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > attributes of god(s) > all-pervadingness all-pervadingness1849 pervasiveness1862 1849 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 146 The limitation may be in our faculties, and in the allpervadingness, to us, of a contrary experience. 1914 E. von Arnim Pastor's Wife i. 7 The Bishop's speeches, the Bishop's departures by trains, his all-pervadingness when at home, his all-engulfing mass of correspondence when away. 1991 S. King Buddha Nature i. 15 These ten characteristics..are..all-pervadingness [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1765 |
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