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Definition of Enchains
1. enchain [v] - See also: enchain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enchains
Literary usage of Enchains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Education: Being the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered in the by William Henry Bainbrigge (1881)
"Sin drags down the soul, and enchains it to the earth; but purified by the Divine
influence assisting your humble endeavours, it shall aspire heavenward, ..."
2. Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1890)
"What spell enchains her to this gentle care ? ... What spell enchains him in his
turn—what makes His very being thus in languor me't— Bui that his voice a ..."
3. Psychology, Or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropology, Adapted by Friedrich August Rauch (1853)
"It is true that man, while under the dominion of desire, may turn from one object
to another, so that no one enchains him, yet it is the power of pleasure ..."
4. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1851)
"A cord scarcely visible enchains it, and will not let it go. Now, stationary
Christians, see here your state, —the state of thousands. Sabbaths come and go, ..."
5. A Symposium on the Land Question by Joseph Hiam Levy (1890)
"You may say that is an eternal struggle between the two, and that sometimes force
enlists and enchains reason on its side; sometimes reason enlists and ..."
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