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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inweave .
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Examples
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Sliding between her raiment and smooth breasts, it coils without touch, and instils its viperous breath unseen; the great serpent turns into the twisted gold about her neck, turns into the long ribbon of her chaplet, inweaves her hair, and winds slippery over her body.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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In his account, however, though he inserts it as early as the year 1639 in his Memoir, he inweaves recollections that must span from 1639 to 1646, so as to describe in one passage his uncle's training of boys from the age of ten to that of fifteen or sixteen: --
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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Tissue of History, which inweaves all Being: watch well, or it will be past thee, and seen no more. "
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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