enwomb

verb — 2 senses

enwomb

verb

Etymology From en- + womb.

1

Archaic, Poetic To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.

  • For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  • Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:
2

Archaic, Poetic To enclose.

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