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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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Etymology of 'End-all'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"End-all" Quotes from Famous Books

... imitators have succeeded in equalling it since, it is because they have thought too much of the external devices of abrupt and uncouth change of modes and tonalities, of exotic scales and garish orchestration, and too little of the fundamental element of melody which once was the be-all and end-all of Italian music. Another fountain of gushing melody must be opened before 'Cavalleria rusticana' finds a successor in all things worthy of the succession. Ingenious artifice, reflection, and technical cleverness will not ...

— A Second Book of Operas • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... partner of the great Dumas. In this kind of novel the closed door of "The Author of Beltraffio" must be broken open; passion must appear upon the scene and utter its last word; passion is the be-all and the end-all, the plot and the solution, the protagonist and the deus ex machina in one. The characters may come anyhow upon the stage: we do not care; the point is, that, before they leave it, they shall become transfigured and raised out of themselves by passion. ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 • Robert Louis Stevenson