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:
The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust.
This pervading sense of internal conflict16 is what lies at the heart of a 'theology of country music'.
Improving coordination was an overarching aim pervading all aspects of the project.
The result of the pervading influence of positivism in the seats of higher learning was to consider mainly quantifiable knowledge as admissible.
The language of the master molecule is pervading all of biology today, including evolution.
Extensive writing, pervading the minutist branches of the administration, is the most active assistant of modern centralization.
What emerged, however, is that there is an air of anxiety pervading our institutions.
I do not believe that a high degree of liberty can be imagined without widely pervading orality.
