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noun

End-all n.

Complete termination. (R.) "That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here."

The primary or only purpose or goal; as, winning office is the be-all and end-all of a politician's life.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"End-all" Quotes from Famous Books

... had sat during some long and anxious minutes, listening to the appalling thunder-claps, when Orpheus rushed into the banqueting-room, with the same frenzied and terror-stricken haste as before, among the revellers, crying: "It is the end-all is over! The world is falling asunder! Fire is come down from heaven! The earth is in flames already—I saw it with my own eyes! I have come down from ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... has GAMBETTA. He is all language. If you were to cut him up in little bits and put each atom under a microscope, you would find in every molecule the text of some proclamation. The genii of syntax and prosody are his guardian angels, and the love of "gabble" is the be-all and the end-all of his political existence. He loves not GARIBALDI. He would have done violence to his grandmother rather than consent to the invitation of the Italian liberator. For short, he calls him "GARRY." Standing in front of the Hotel de Ville, talking to a group of eager listeners, with his arms wildly ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870 • Various

... Must we not attain to the conviction that man is the end of all earthly means before we ask whether he too is not the means to some end? If man is bound up with everything, is there not something above him with which he again is bound up? If he is the end-all of the explained transmutations that lead up to him, must he not be also the link between ...

— Louis Lambert • Honore de Balzac