Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of pervading; a passing through the whole extent of a thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
pervading ;permeation ,suffusion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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Although there is certainly a difference of scale and societal pervasion, the scapegoating of American Muslims, by political leaders and cultural figures alike, is also both immoral and dangerous.
Moriel Rothman: Threats To America: Islamic Law Taking Over! Jews Controlling The Media! Moriel Rothman 2011
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One step would be to address the pervasion of overly restrictive eligibility requirements for receiving unemployment benefits.
Wonk Room » Getting Unemployment Benefits To All Who Need Them 2009
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KENYON: Eskander says it's crucial to retrieve the spy files as soon as possible because it will take years for Iraq to recover from the effects of a spying operation of staggering pervasion and brutality.
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It was also formulated as a nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse for the purpose of directing itself against the British colonial Western European pervasion of India's public and private social spheres.
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The numbing cold interspersed with plenty of warming references to the lighting of the woodburning stove and that sudden pervasion of heat which happens very quickly once it catches, unless it's me lighting it, in which case expect to wait hours.
Out Stealing Horses 2007
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