all-comprehensive

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The principle, if there is to be one, must be universally applicable, all-comprehensive.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Thus the system of the Englishman Hobbes was science swelled to world-proportions, simple, compact, conclusive, and all-comprehensive.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

So huge his all-comprehensive mouth, it seemed to swallow up itself.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

Or is this all-comprehensive Hinduism, this universal toleration, this refusal to recognise ultimate antagonisms, this "mush," in a word, as my friends would dub it—is this, after all, the truest and profoundest vision?

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)

Absolute relief possessed his soul; rest of spirit so all-comprehensive that it strengthened his body, peace so whole that it bordered on gladness, and confidence, new, delicious and simple, embraced all his being.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth