pervade
verb (used with object)
to become spread throughout all parts of.
pervasion
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a word derived from
pervade.
Example Sentences
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Both Crouch and Schweitzer say they believe the biggest obstacle to getting young doctors into scarcely populated areas is a lack of information and the pervasion of negative stereotypes about rural medicine and its challenges.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 2, 2018
The subsequent pervasion of moral relativism created an atmosphere that made people uncomfortable passing judgement on crooks, he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2012
The non-released soul has its intellectual power contracted by the influence of Karman, and hence is incapable of that expansive pervasion without which it cannot identify itself with other bodies.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by George Thibaut
This is the great reality towards which men have been led by symbol—the complete pervasion of all intelligence and of all moral beings by the Spirit of God.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
Vishnu similarly analysed is the power that "pervades, expands, and preserves;" I infer this from the union of V, whose force is pervasion, Sh, expansion, and N, continuation.
From AE in the Irish Theosophist by George William Russell
