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  • verb Archaic spelling of enwrapped.

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Examples

  • The temporal destiny of woman is enwrapt in still more impenetrable obscurity than that of man.

    Camilla 2008

  • Has some heaven-sent disease enwrapt thy frame, or hast thou heard from our father some deadly threat concerning me and my sons?

    The Argonautica 2008

  •     Phaethon flame-enwrapt, and cypress in air upspringing:

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Phaethon flame-enwrapt, and cypress in air upspringing:

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • That radiant spirit, enwrapt in so fair an outward seeming, must come to see and rejoice in him.

    The Titan 2004

  • She was so care-free, living in a high and solitary world, at times apparently enwrapt in thoughts serene, at other times sharing vividly in the current interests of the social world of which she was a part, and which she dignified as much as it dignified her.

    The Titan 2004

  • Elevated and enwrapt, while her eyes were often wet with tears of sublime devotion and solemn awe, she continued at the casement, till the gloom of mid-night hung over the earth, and the planet, which La

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • No hooded ambulance moves joltlessly, tended by enwrapt bearers, on pathless way; no formal procession paces from the house of death to the long last home.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • In the deepest fountain of my heart the pulses were stirred; around, above, beneath, the clinging Memory as a cloak enwrapt me.

    The Last Man 2003

  • In the beginning of time, when, as now, man lived by families, and not by tribes or nations, they were placed in a genial clime, where earth fed them untilled, and the balmy air enwrapt their reposing limbs with warmth more pleasant than beds of down.

    The Last Man 2003

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