unpervadedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnpəˈveɪdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənpərˈveɪdᵻd/ Not pervaded. Chiefly in predicative use.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > impregnated > not
unpervaded1737
1737 ‘Philoveritas’ Ess. on Relig. (ed. 2) 46 He [sc. God] ever acts and rests, free from Obstruction or Contamination, as being entire, pure..and uncontaminate, pervading all, and is unpervaded, and the first Mover.
1749 Ess. Atheism & Deism 72 As all Things are of God, and in him, he pervades all Things unpervaded and undefiled.
1844 Protestant Mag. Dec. 390 Unpervaded as our masses are by true religion.., yet in morals what country can compare with us as a whole?
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 388 That the Old Testament is unpervaded by any distinct traces of expectations of a future life.
1919 Billings (Montana) Daily Gaz. 19 Sept. 1/6 There was..no part of the grounds unpervaded by melody.
2011 Y. Itzhaki Mindfulness in Early Buddhism i. 39 Religious identity is a total thing, all-inclusive, leaving no part of men or women and their surroundings unfilled, unpervaded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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