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verb

Enfold v. t. To infold. See Infold.

Infold v. t. (past & past part. infolded; pres. part. infolding) (Written also enfold)

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. "Gilded tombs do worms infold." "Infold his limbs in bands."

To clasp with the arms; to embrace. "Noble Banquo,... let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart."

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Etymology of 'Enfold'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enfold" Quotes from Famous Books

... enshrined The stone so few on earth had found, We must be very brave; it lay A hundred haunted leagues away, Past many a griffon-guarded ground, In depths of dark and curious art, Where passion-flowers enfold apart The Temple of the Flaming Heart, The City of the ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... Faces and forms appeared and vanished in a bewildering manner. At last one stood out clear from all the rest. It was the face of a beautiful girl, who looked upon her with longing eyes and called her "mother." With a cry, Mrs. Hampton reached out her arms to enfold her, but the girl disappeared, and in her stead stood John, with a smile ...

— Jess of the Rebel Trail • H. A. Cody

... white-washing all the chicken paraphernalia on the place, and I dropped corn behind Rufus' plow for a whole day, even if it was to produce food for the swine. I went to bed at night literally on time with the chickens. I could only stay awake to kneel and reach out the arms of prayer and enfold Pan to my heart for a very few seconds before I vaulted into the four-poster and tumbled into the ...

— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess

... with heaven's own light Like the gods I blossom; Care for nought till she be brought Yielding to my bosom. Thirst divine my soul doth pine To behold her and enfold her, With clasped arms alone to hold her In Love's holy ...

— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various

... peasant tills the hard earth, there does thy joy gush out in the green of the corn; wherever man displaces the entangled forest, smooths the stony ground, and clears for himself a homestead, there does thy joy enfold it in ...

— The Reconciliation of Races and Religions • Thomas Kelly Cheyne

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