all-embracing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of all-embracing
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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Their numbers are hard to gauge, as there is no all-embracing definition of what constitutes one.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
A cursive-print sign at the park’s exit bears her all-embracing message: “I will always love you.”
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2022
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer best expressed the imagined reach of "the Great Fear," an all-embracing dread of a fiendish conspiracy that supposedly sought to strike at the very foundations of civilized life.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2020
Before the last silence, with birdcalls in the woodwinds, there is a spell of absolute fulfillment, of all-embracing spiritual warmth.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2019
It was a darkened magic lantern show, fantastical and all-embracing.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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