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encompassing

adjective as in including

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Not literally, but that was the impression I got; the hug was all-encompassing compassion, forgiveness and acceptance.

Heroin users describe the high as a feeling of all-encompassing well being.

Instead, he prefers to avoid that all-encompassing, data-friendly approach and go from the gut.

And that really encapsulates the pure spirit of all Icelanders: an all-encompassing passion that permeates everything they do.

Don meets Joy on a California business trip in Season 2, and they embark on an extremely brief, sunny, all-encompassing affair.

Many a village was recognizable from the encompassing waste only by the sign-board stuck in a mound announcing its name.

The Church might have to resist unto blood in striving against the encompassing sin.

Down he sank, slowly and gradually, till he was up to his waist in the relentless and encompassing sands.

For already the great silence of the darkness beyond was flowing out to Isaacson, was encompassing him about.

Between the two walls is a ditch, as likewise is another encompassing the outermost wall.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to encompassing, such as: enveloping, encircling, surrounding, ambient, and circumferential.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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