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/pərvˈeɪd/ Listen

verb

Pervade v. t. (past & past part. pervaded; pres. part. pervading)

To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate. "That labyrinth is easily pervaded."

To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout. "A spirit of cabal, intrigue, and proselytism pervaded all their thoughts, words, and actions."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... flowers which were indicated by what Giovanni had witnessed, she had at least instilled a fierce and subtle poison into his system. It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. Giovanni knew not what to dread; still less did he know what to hope; yet hope and dread kept a continual warfare ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... the Romans, and who will observe in what characteristics the earliest Western theology and philosophy differ from the phases of thought which preceded them, may be safely left to pronounce what was the new element which had begun to pervade and govern speculation. ...

— Ancient Law - Its Connection to the History of Early Society • Sir Henry James Sumner Maine

... as the breeze of a dream, blew gently along the grass and tingled against Northwood's skin refreshingly. Almost instantly he had the sensation of perfect well being, and this feeling of physical perfection was part of the ecstasy that seemed to pervade the entire valley. Grass and breeze and golden skylight were saturated with a strange ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various

... the same enemies to fear, and the same cause, the prosperity of the settlement, to promote. In such circumstances, the governor had good reason to hope, that one common desire of safety, and principle of love and friendship, would pervade the whole colony; yet nothing is more certain than that the contrary effect took place. The most numerous party in the country were dissenters, of various denominations, from the established church of England; which body of men, whatever high pretensions they may affect to superior sanctity ...

— An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 • Alexander Hewatt

... persuade the whole population to submit to military training, whether it is needful for the country's defence or not. Under such training, they suppose, the virtues that peace imperils would be maintained; a sense of equality and comradeship would pervade all classes, and for two or three years of life the wealthy would enjoy the realities of labour and discomfort. It is a tempting vision, and if this were the only means of escape from such a danger as is represented, the wealthy ...

— Essays in Rebellion • Henry W. Nevinson

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