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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enfold.

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Examples

  • This means 'to fold inward' ... so we may be led to explore the notion that in some sense each region contains a total structure 'enfolded' within it ".

    Notes From The Geek Show 2009

  • I found myself enfolded in soft arms that reminded me of my mother.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011

  • The pale twilight fell, and enfolded us with unutterable tenderness, just revealing the glimmering snows of Lebanon, and leaving the glass of the sea just distinguishable from the air.

    Weatherwatch 2011

  • She enfolded me chest to chest, hips to hips, smell of sandalwood, musk.

    World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

  • I tried to memorize the serenity that lived in her hands and arms, the calmness and sweetness that came off her like incense as she enfolded my flailing, slippery daughter.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • I tried to memorize the serenity that lived in her hands and arms, the calmness and sweetness that came off her like incense as she enfolded my flailing, slippery daughter.

    The Bird House Kelly Simmons 2011

  • It was an aged norn male, his once-proud figure stooped a bit, his head bald, his eyes enfolded in rings.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • It was an aged norn male, his once-proud figure stooped a bit, his head bald, his eyes enfolded in rings.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • It was enfolded in mysteries, but I was not the kind of man to enter into it or bow my head to follow where it led.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • It was enfolded in mysteries, but I was not the kind of man to enter into it or bow my head to follow where it led.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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  • See implicate for usage note.

    August 4, 2008