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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: pervadere, from vadere 'to go'

pervade

 verb
     
per‧vade [transitive] formal
if a feeling, idea, or smell pervades a place, it is present in every part of it:
A spirit of hopelessness pervaded the country.
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