Adjective : an all-embracing definition. From Dictionary.com.
The all-embracing sky they worshipped as the Heaven-Father. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Montgomery bus and set off the all-embracing crusade of Martin Luther. From Wordnik.com. [Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965] Reference
We are born into a moral environment as into an all-embracing atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
When again doth the all-embracing destruction come, into whom doth it merge?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
"The Qurán is an all-embracing and sufficient code, regulating everything,". From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
The grass is luxuriant, the shade is all-embracing, and the willows can wait. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
If there were any all-embracing harmony, one soul through all, he did not see it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Like Clinton, she is an all-embracing empathizer with an instinct for compromise. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Mrs. Thatcher?] Reference
There unity appeared as an all-embracing magnitude, revealed through the Universe. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In these books Reid had in view a more all-embracing purpose than in his first work. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The pastor led the way to the throne of grace in a fervent and all-embracing prayer. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
There was for us no Past, no Future; there was only the long-waited, all-embracing Now. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
They have been the first to appreciate and understand the all-embracing duties of the Sanitary. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
It would be hard to find a country whose charitable organizations are so all-embracing as here. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
All that springs from such points does so because of the point's relation to the all-embracing plane. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Medicine, he planned for an all-embracing exhibition and reference collection of the medical sciences. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Division of Medical Sciences United States National Museum Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 43, 1964] Reference
Especially there is a great deal of biography; for biography is the great, all-embracing epic of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The delegate finished this period with an all-embracing smile and, nodding gently, leaned back again in his chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
This became the "all-embracing engagement" of his teenage years, making his later change of course all the more striking. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Judt obituary] Reference
How tender its imagery, how rich its consoling suggestions, how all-embracing its arabesques, how original its structure!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
For with consummate skill was planned that all-embracing machinery, so that at one and the same moment all over the United. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
The result is an increase in the number of single mass-centres on the earth, as against the all-embracing cosmic periphery. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
It will be necessary that these turn over their holdings to our single all-embracing organization for the sake of efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
Wherever a life is devoted with an all-embracing faith and with its full powers to the service of some value, there is true heroism. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
That day was a new day to Amanda -- a birthday -- a day in which she realized the all-embracing strength and sufficiency of a Divine love. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
When these lucid moments brought coherent thought, it was the jungle, the endless, all-embracing, fearful jungle, that overwhelmed my mind. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
The time must come when the imperative necessity for the holding of a vast, an all-embracing assemblage of men will be universally realized. From Wordnik.com. [Statement on Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
His fundamental purpose in enduring that continual toil and pain, and bearing those calamities, was to safeguard the divine and all-embracing. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
His happiness showed itself in the flush of his face, in the glow of his eyes, and in the general exuberance and all-embracing swell of his manner. From Wordnik.com. [The American Baron] Reference
At all events, the minister found himself unable to dismiss a certain thin and impalpable fantasy which lingered behind that ponderous speculation of an all-embracing philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.

