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Definition of All-encompassing
1. Adjective. Broad in scope or content. "Granted him wide powers"
Similar to: Comprehensive
Derivative terms: Extensiveness, Wideness
Definition of All-encompassing
1. Adjective. including everything; universal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of All-encompassing
Literary usage of All-encompassing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"And who does not know that at such times—yes, and at all times—we may disregard
that Presence, harden ourselves against that all-encompassing Power, ..."
2. Living With Siva by Subramuniya (2001)
"love that is all encompassing. It is a very narrow form of love. ... It is not
all encompassing. Physical love and emotional love are companions. ..."
3. Basic Documents about the Treatment of the Detainees at Guantánamo and Abu by W. Frederick Zimmerman (2004)
"LTG Sanchez requested a comprehensive and all-encompassing inquiry to make findings
and recommendations concerning the ..."
4. Life, Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus (1880)
"And the natural drift of the human mind is ever towards this abstract conception—this
one all-encompassing law of the universe. ..."
5. The Mystery: Or, Evil and God by John Young (1856)
"Creation, whensoever realised, is alike amidst the all-encompassing, Infinite,
Indivisible, ... On the one hand, the all-encompassing Eternal is, ever was, ..."
6. CIA and Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes, 1962-1968 by Harold P. Ford (1999)
"... there was a "massive and all-encompassing" ignorance of Vietnamese history
and society.29 For the most part, US policymakers greatly underestimated the ..."
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