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Definition of Engrained
1. engrain [v] - See also: engrain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engrained
Literary usage of Engrained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"Engrained, Ingrained, r ... A very dirty-looking person is said 'to have the dirt
engrained into his skin. ..."
2. The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it by Hinton Rowan Helper (1857)
"So it was with the parties to the English Civil War, and the tendency to regard
matters from a legal point of view is to this day deeply engrained in the ..."
3. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1877)
"These languages are so engrained into the ways of thought of the Africans of that
... The idea of slavery is so thoroughly engrained in the African nature, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Baron von der Gol tz accepta the statement as true, without reserva When, however,
we come to consider what has enabled armies to acquire this engrained ..."
5. The English Review (1852)
"It has been expressed in her official acts ; it is fostered by oaths ; it is a
part of herself; it is a feature engrained in her. ..."
6. Plato, and the Other Companions of Sokrates by George Grote (1888)
"The man already wise is not a lover of wisdom : nor the man thoroughly bad and
stupid, with whose nature ignorance is engrained, by the Like does not love ..."
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