enshadow

verb

enshadow

verb

Etymology From en- + shadow.

1

To cover with a shadow.

  • Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings […]1910, E. M. Forster, Howards End:
  • One of the most pervasive of these images is that of a great enshadowing tree which is personified, a great mother who binds all living things together in the manifold embrace of her leaves and branches.2005, Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys, The J. Hillis Miller Reader, page 172:

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