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End-all   Listen
noun
End-all  n.  
1.
Complete termination. (R.) "That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here."
2.
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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"End-all" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "End-all" :   goal, end, be-all and end-all


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