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Another word for enfold

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Verb

  1. To cover completely and closely, as with clothing or bandages

    See also:

    put-on

  2. To surround and cover completely so as to obscure

    See also:

    show

  3. To put one's arms around affectionately

    See also:

    touch

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Another word for enfold

Verb
  1. See also:

    wrap

    surround

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Sentence Examples

  • A luminous warmth seems to enfold me.

  • fealdan) meant originally to double back a piece of cloth or other material so as to form a pleat, whence has evolved its various senses of to roll up, to enclose, enfold or embrace as with the arms, to clasp the hands or arms together, &c. The word is common to Teutonic languages, cf.

  • If Ritschl had clearly shown that judgments of value enfold and transform other types of knowledge, just as the "spiritual man" includes and transfigures but does not annihilate the "natural man," then within the compass of this spiritually conditioned knowledge all other knowledge would be seen to have a function and a home.

  • enfold the whole world in the arms of Thy love, O Ever-Virgin Mary.

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