all-loving
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English
Etymology
Adjective
all-loving (not comparable)
- Loving all people, creatures, things, etc.
- 1853, Theodore Parker, Ten Sermons of Religion, pages 242–243:
- I know, I feel, I am sure of this, that the infinite God has known it all, provided for it all; that as he is all-powerful, all-wise, all-just, all-loving, and all-holy too, no absolute evil shall ever come to any child of his, erring or sinned against.
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- “all-loving, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
