all-sufficing

The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett

What he did was accomplished with the ease and grace of all-sufficing strength; with the bountiful cheerfulness of high and unbroken energies.

Villette

Here the material is little, the imagination mighty indeed, but less overwhelming than with poet and musician; but the technique, the God-given and labor-trained cunning of retina and wrist, how all-important! often how all-sufficing!

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878

There is no poverty about this love, in which she has grown and strengthened: it is rich, all-sufficing.

Molly Bawn

While doing this great work, Michael Angelo was only too evidently under the bondage of the Papacy; for in this picture the Virgin Saint usurps the place of our all-sufficing, merciful, and loving Saviour.

Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta

The sealed envelope scarcely needed to be opened at the back for interior inspection; its exterior bore ample and all-sufficing evidence that the seals had been broken, and the gum softened; the fingers which had again pressed down the gummed edge were not as unsullied as 'Sister

Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert

Washington Sullivan, Stanton Coit, and others; all these teachers with one accord deprecate and dismiss theological doctrines as at best not proven, at worst a hindrance, and commend instead morality as the all-embracing, all-sufficing and all-saving religion.

Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive

The immediate perception of flowers and birds and breezes is so all-sufficing to them that such phenomena do not send their minds racing back on a quest of first principles.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

To every true man, the cares of fatherhood and home are sacred and all-sufficing.

The Daughters of Danaus

Hitherto my all-sufficing self-hood had never been stirred by the mighty touch of Love.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862