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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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Etymology of 'Pervade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... possession of stock in any quantity was regarded as a provision for old age; and great was the scramble to obtain it. The excitement in Baltimore roused public attention elsewhere; and a railroad mania began to pervade the land." ...

— Peter Cooper - The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 • Rossiter W. Raymond

... was giving me the brief history just recorded, I noticed a little incident that caused a troubled feeling to pervade my mind. After a man, for whom the landlord's son had prepared a fancy drink, had nearly emptied his glass, he set it down upon the counter and went out. A tablespoonful or two remained in the glass, and I noticed Frank, after ...

— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur

... fortification of which no longer exist. It requires half an hour's walk to ascend to the summit of Rheinfels, but the traveller is well repaid for the fatigue of the ascent by the fine view enjoyed from the top. I remained at Rheinfels nearly an hour. What a solemn stillness seems to pervade this part of the river, only interrupted by the occasional splash of the oar, and the tolling of the steeple bell! Bingen on the right bank is the next place of interest, and on an island in the centre of the river facing Bingen ...

— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... aright. Even Hilda poured the slender sweetness of her note into her country's song. Miriam was at first silent, being perhaps unfamiliar with the air and burden. But suddenly she threw out such a swell and gush of sound, that it seemed to pervade the whole choir of other voices, and then to rise above them all, and become audible in what would else have been thee silence of an upper region. That volume of melodious voice was one of the tokens of a great ...

— The Marble Faun, Volume I. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... conduct of the lady during the journey—her long fits of profound silence, the irresolution and uncertainty which seemed to pervade all her movements, and the obvious incapacity of thinking and acting for herself under which she seemed to labour—Wayland had formed the not improbable opinion that the difficulties of her situation had in ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

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