Enswathe

//ɛnˈsweɪð// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To swathe or envelop (someone or something), as in swaddling clothes. transitive

    "Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love."

Example

More examples

"Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love."

Etymology

From en- + swathe.

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