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  • verb Simple past of inweave.

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Examples

  • No rain came, as they had expected, and by the time they halted the western sky had cleared, so that the newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • It is therefore a matter of everlasting gratitude and thanksgiving that all the men most concerned in the founding of our commonwealth were so clear and well-balanced on the subject of religious liberty, and so thoroughly inwove the same into its organic constitution.

    Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties Joseph A. Seiss

  • He deliberately inwove His life into all that is commonest in life.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index Grenville Kleiser 1910

  • No rain came, as they had expected, and by the time they halted the western sky had cleared, so that the newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.

    The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Through time-fallen woods, and root-inwove morass_.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • To the careful training of his good mother he was indebted for the exquisite taste and truthfulness with which he interpreted nature; for the nice sense of honor which distinguished him through life, and which often rose to a weakness; for the delicate reserve which made absence from home a self-imposed hermitage; and for the deep, devotional feeling and healthy habit of moral reflection which ever shaped and inwove the pure current of his thoughts and writings.

    Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 Various

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