enfold
verbEtymology Alteration of earlier infold, from Middle English infolden, equivalent to en- + fold.
1
To envelop and wrap up something.
- In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold: But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
2
To clasp with the arms; embrace.
- Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
- Derived terms
- enfoldedly, enfolder, enfoldingly, enfoldment, unenfolded