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End-all

End-all \End"-all`\, n.

  1. Complete termination. [R.]

    That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here.
    --Shak.

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

WordNet
end-all

n. the ultimate goal; "human beings are not the end-all of evolution"

Usage examples of "end-all".

Some day--soon, it is to be hoped--managers, singers, and public will awake to a realization that, even in the old operas in which beautiful singing is supposed to be the be-all and end-all, the action ought to be kept coherent.

She had once considered the performing arts the be-all and end-all of ambition.

You high-toned Charlestonians think you're the be-all and end-all, but you're not.

Temporary infusion (as important and profound as it sometimes is) becomes the be-all and end-all of consciousness occasions.