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

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Examples

  • As it was, every one of the infolds showed an increasingly lighter grey the higher it folded up, and like huge, black udders the outfolds were hanging down.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • Spinoza, and after him Hegel, will teach that the possible infolds, as it were, an essential tendency to existence, and that this tendency is greater in proportion as the possible is perfect.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The higher self of the individual man infolds more of the consciousness of God than the lower, but lower and higher are the same thing.

    The New Theology 1911

  • What history too, and what stores of primitive and savage observation, it infolds!

    XI. English Traits. Aristocracy 1909

  • Thou wilt know every shade of my suffering; thou wilt care for me with thy perfect fatherhood; for that makes my sonship, and inwraps and infolds it.

    Unspoken Sermons Series One 1824-1905 1867

  • Alas for girls in a family where the atmosphere of vile thinking, winnowed by the carrion wings of degraded and degrading judgments, infolds them!

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Ahasuerus; my love infolds and is the nest of all love.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

  • -- Jesus stood then in the meeting point of both worlds, or rather in the skirts of the great world that infolds the less.

    Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864

  • Then I looked to the left, and there stood my old church, as quiet in the dreary day, though not so bright, as in the sunshine: even the graves themselves must look yet more "solemn sad" in a wintry day like this, than they look when the sunlight that infolds them proclaims that God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

    Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

  • Alas for girls in a family where the atmosphere of vile thinking, winnowed by the carrion wings of degraded and degrading judgments, infolds them!

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

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