Definition of Enchainment

1. n. The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.

Definition of Enchainment

1. Noun. The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained. ¹

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Definition of Enchainment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enchainment

encephalothlipsis
encephalotome
encephalotomy
encephalotrigeminal vascular syndrome
encephalous
encephalum
encephelopathy
enchafe
enchafed
enchafes
enchafing
enchain
enchained
enchaining
enchainment (current term)
enchainments
enchains
enchaired
enchannel
enchanneled
enchanneling
enchannels
enchant
enchantable
enchanted
enchanter
enchanter's nightshade
enchanters
enchantest

Literary usage of Enchainment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"As to the willingness of her enchainment, that is a partial relief to her, but it is an obstacle to those who would break the chains. ..."

2. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes (1910)
"Therefore I say it is painfully manifest that " the enchainment of all the various orders of ... So far as any argument from such "enchainment" reaches, ..."

3. Benedict de Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, and Ethics by Robert Willis (1870)
"But the order and enchainment of ideas is the same as the order and enchainment of causes (by Prop. VII. above). Therefore is the cause of every particular ..."

4. Lectures on Quaternions: Containing a Systematic Statement of a New by William Rowan Hamilton (1853)
"... enchainment of spherical polygons; which enchainment is here performed through a SYSTEM OF FIFTEEN SPHERICAL CONICS, inscribed in certain quadrilaterals ..."

5. The Chicago Medical Journal (1875)
"One question which presents itself very often, and which is of no little importance, is that of the adherence or enchainment of the calculi, ..."

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