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English
Etymology
all- + be- + crushing, nonce coinage by S. T. Coleridge to render Mendelssohn's alleszermalmend, in reference to Kant.
Adjective
all-becrushing (comparative more all-becrushing, superlative most all-becrushing)
- crushing all
1817, S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria:the striking but untranslatable epithet, which the celebrated Mendelssohn applied to the great founder of the Critical Philosophy "Der alleszermalmende Kant," that is, the all-becrushing, or rather the all-to-nothing-crushing Kant.
1990, Andrei Navrozov, The Times, Saturday May 5, 1990:providing its author – unlike the Red Star – with equal space for an allbecrushing reply.