all-comprehensive

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We talk so much of the free flight of imagination, of the all-comprehensive power of the creator, that we forget the sociological conditions—not to mention others—on which they are every moment dependent.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

So I have to tell you that that leaf in my heart and in your heart, that leaf of judgment, that all-comprehensive leaf, has a wide margin for cancellation.

From New Tabernacle Sermons by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)

Once more the gesture, ending in an all-comprehensive shrug.

From The Dominant Dollar by Ralph, Lester

It would, however, be a great mistake to regard the through-business an all-comprehensive, in enumerating the sources of profit to be relied on by the enterprise.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various

It is to be all-comprehensive governing:—institutions, arts, sciences.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander