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all-englobing

all-englobing adjective: all-encompassing.

Adjective

all-englobing (comparative more all-englobing, superlative most all-englobing)

  1. (literary) All-encompassing.
    • God, our origin and foundation, our closest, all-penetrative environment, and our all-englobing end.1906, Friedrich von Hügel, “Experience and Transcendence”, in The Dublin Review, volume 138, numbers 276, 277, page 379
    • The desire to get back into the womb can become, in a creative way, a making of a womb out of the whole world, including everything in the womb (the city, the enlarged universe of Black Spring, of The Black Book), the all-englobing, all-encompassing womb, holding everything.1967, Anaïs Nin, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934–1939, Swallow Press, page 173

Forms of all-englobing

comparativemore all-englobing
superlativemost all-englobing

Origin of all-englobing

From all- + englobing.

Questions about all-englobing

What does all-englobing mean?
All-englobing means all-encompassing.
What part of speech is all-englobing?
All-englobing is an adjective.

Words near all-englobing in the dictionary

  1. all-dressed
  2. all-eating
  3. all-electric
  4. all-embracing
  5. all-encompassing
  6. all-englobing
  7. all-everything
  8. all-expense
  9. all-expenses-paid
  10. All-Father
  11. All-Fathers

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