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Envelopment can't go on forever; it must have an abschluss, a total envelope must terminate the series, so God is the name that Fechner gives to this last all-enveloper.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

Envelopment, or the sense of air with which objects are surrounded.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin

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From Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block by Standish, Burt L.