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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enswathe.

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Examples

  • They may bruise my skin, nay, they may give my body to be burned, but no flame can destroy the love of Jesus which enswathes my soul with invisible defence.

    My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

  • Mezelais she had viewed the great conqueror as through an aweful haze of forerunning rumor, twin to that golden vapor which enswathes a god and transmutes whatever in corporeal man would have been a defect into some divine and hitherto unguessed-at excellence.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Mezelais she had viewed the great conqueror as through an aweful haze of forerunning rumor, twin to that golden vapor which enswathes a god and transmutes whatever in corporeal man had been a defect into some divine and hitherto unguessed-at excellence.

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • There can be nothing more repulsive than the air of many a sailor's cabin, and this in spite of the fact that his boat is enveloped in the purest air that enswathes the earth.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

  • If, then, our God and Father enswathes us in "great mercy," He visits in the sweetest fellowships.

    The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

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