all-possessing

Watch as he confronts the horrors of drug-addled dope fiends and the all-possessing agony of addiction.

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A room, noticed once a year and a half ago, came before him now with a creeping, all-possessing distinctness -- that loathsome, dreadful room

McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

Toddles 'turbulent soul, rose in a sudden all-possessing sweep of fury.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

She made a sharp movement forward, nerved for the fray by sheer all-possessing anger.

The Keeper of the Door 1910

Parent; that the Sun was begotten by no lessening of the Father or subtraction from His Substance, but that He Who possesses all things begot an all-possessing Son; a Son not emanating nor proceeding from the Father, but compact of, and inherent in, the whole Divinity, of Him

NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

Indus_, 1890; _Vom Aral bis zur Gang [= a] _ 1892.] [Footnote 22: Or "all-possessing" [Whitney].

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894

Although religious missionaries have not met with any marked success among the natives, this less deserving class of enthusiastic disseminators of an all-possessing belief might do well to attempt it.

The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885

Silence so all-possessing that the sound of the ship's engine could not reach my ear, but was blended with the water-splash into a lulling murmur.

By the Ionian Sea George Gissing 1880

It had been expelled from memory by the all-possessing woe of those last hours; it returned like a soothing warmth, an assuagement of pain.

A Life's Morning George Gissing 1880

a sun myth; for it is essentially of human regard, an attempt on man's part to explain that most peculiar attribute of his constitution, the all-possessing sense of self.

The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885