Both Uses of
comprehensive
in
Bleak House
- Whether "Tom" is the popular representative of the original plaintiff or defendant in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, or whether Tom lived here when the suit had laid the street waste, all alone, until other settlers came to join him, or whether the traditional title is a comprehensive name for a retreat cut off from honest company and put out of the pale of hope, perhaps nobody knows.†
Chpt 16-18
- With a comprehensive wave of his pipe, Mr. George places the whole building at his visitor's disposal.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(comprehensive) large in scope; or including everything or everything important