Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A preterit and past participle of interwork.
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Examples
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One of them threw him a coil of purple silk interwrought with gold thread, in which a running noose had been tied.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series Rafael Sabatini 1912
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It is directly to the point here that the whole scheme of religion as it has come down to us on the Protestant side till within the last fifty years was at once compactly interwrought, strongly supported and unexpectedly vulnerable.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912
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Then -- for with the warp of a harsh and passionate character were interwrought an odd shrewdness and some things little suspected -- he resigned himself.
Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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No one dreamed as yet of the opportunity opening to them in being so constantly near the man whose life they have written, and with whose fame they have imperishably interwrought their names.
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878
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No one dreamed as yet of the opportunity opening to them in being so constantly near the man whose life they have written, and with whose fame they have imperishably interwrought their names.
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878
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The whole system of views out of which it springs, and with which it is interwrought, is a fanciful mythology, based on gratuitous assumptions, or at most on a crude glance at mere appearances.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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The conception of Ahriman, the evil serpent, bearing death, (die Schlange Angramainyus der voll Tod ist,) is interwrought from the first throughout the Zoroastrian scheme.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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