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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enframe.

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Examples

  • I really cannot argue with the fact that I am similarly “enframed” by my online persona and recent online kerfuffles/imbroglios/etc.

    Enframing or, What’s My Motivation? darkerblogistan 2009

  • We've grown into a dogmatism within this enframed mindset and alienated ourselves from the very primordial relations that shape human experience.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • Science is embedded in an enframed mindset by which the Nietzschean impulse to optimize translates into the outcomes of science, technology.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • As rain clouds raining on the hills by words enframed:

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • With this term he wants to denote that the modern mood takes or approaches the world as always and already framed, i.e., enframed.

    Phenomenological Approaches to Ethics and Information Technology Introna, Lucas 2005

  • Thus I gazed at the trees with an unsatisfied longing which went beyond them and, without my knowledge, directed itself towards that masterpiece of beautiful strolling women which the trees enframed for a few hours every day.

    Swann's Way 2003

  • The picture of the tragedian stood enframed upon her desk.

    The Awakening 2000

  • He looked like a toad, his gaunt face enframed in a high collar.

    The Weapon Shops of Isher Van Vogt, A. E. 1951

  • After climbing thus for a mile in the shadows of threatening masses of rock, an amphitheatre of gardens, enframed by the spurs of two grand, arid mountains, opened before us.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

  • The second possibility is well illustrated by the early classical Renaissance, where the surface of each story, sharply separated from the others by the line of the frieze, is divided regularly by arches or columns, each window clearly enframed, and every sculptured ornament provided with a niche.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

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