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all-embracing

adj

Etymology

From all + embracing.

Definitions

  1. Having a broad scope

    Having a broad scope; of universal application.

    • The trouble today is that few such causes of delay are taken up with the people concerned; "there is a war on" provides the usual all-embracing excuse.
    • Another new station was planned—a bigger, vaster, all-embracing station, one that would last for all time.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all-embracing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA