all-englobing

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1. literaryAll-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

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   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

   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