Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of enswathing, or the state of being enswathed.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of enswathing.
  • noun The state of being enswathed.

Etymologies

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enswathe +‎ -ment

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Examples

  • Stripped of its physical enswathement it is Beauty, moral and spiritual Beauty, Beauty infinitely real, infinitely exalted, yet infinitely near and infinitely communicable.

    The Greatest Thing in the World And Other Addresses 1920

  • Whether we find relief in the theory of a simple dualism; whether with Ulrici we further define the soul as an invisible enswathement of the body, material yet non-atomic; whether, with the

    Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

  • Stripped of its physical enswathement it is Beauty, moral and spiritual Beauty, Beauty infinitely real, infinitely exalted, yet infinitely near and infinitely communicable.

    The Greatest Thing In the World and Other Addresses Henry Drummond 1874

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