0 present participle of pervade
1 When qualities, characteristics, or smells pervade a place or thing, they spread through it and are present in every part of it:
I should like to see that attitude pervading the country, in industry, in the professions, indeed everywhere.
Nor is there any real pervading sense of national unity in these territories.
It is this lack of candour which is pervading the whole argument that we have heard.
They must be included in the model, because pragmatic, discourse and environmental factors pervading real-life speech ' account for several errors which otherwise would be impossible to explain ' (p. 280).
Their taxonomic language and deadpan expression provoke a pervading sense of melancholy.
The pervading use of metaphors, semantic creativity, and polysemy are but examples of the irreducibility of language to simple pragmatics or communication.
Inequalities in economic and political power are pervading themes running through the three sections as are various manifestations of environmental conflict.
I do not believe that a high degree of liberty can be imagined without widely pervading orality.
