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all-englobing en · ADJ

Etymology

From all- + englobing.

Meanings

1. (literary) All-encompassing.
   • What made the Flood special was that the destruction it wrought was all-englobing. Everything was destroyed and everyone not on Uta-napishti’s ship killed […] 2021, Sophus Helle, Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic with Essays on the Poem, Its Past, and Its Passion, Yale University Press, page 191:
   • 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:

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