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Definition of Enfettering
1. enfetter [v] - See also: enfetter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfettering
Literary usage of Enfettering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handel and His Orbit by Percy Robinson (1908)
"Over-enthusiasm will result in narrowness ; but narrowness is not confined to
this or that circle of adorers; it is an all-enfettering disease. II. ..."
2. The Manuscript by Griggs, Rev. Mr Griggs (1827)
"Occupied in a sphere adapted to its capacities, the soul may cultivate its own
peculiar taste, only freed from the corruptions enfettering mortality. ..."
3. Rovings in the Pacific, from 1837 to 1849: With a Glance at California by Edward] [Lucett (1851)
"... vapours more dense encompassing us, shutting out all sights and sounds, and
enfettering the ocean with its dark stillness, it is so sullenly calm. ..."
4. Mentality and Freedom by William Armstrong Fairburn (1917)
"... sordid materialism and be emancipated from those enfettering, soulless
conventions which are but empty forms void of reason and logical purpose; ..."
5. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly (1889)
"... not by performing any wonderful feat of economic legerdemain, but simply by
removing unnatural obstructions and wrenching off enfettering gyves. ..."
6. A Dictionary, Gujarátí and English by Shápurjí Edaljí (1868)
"any ensnaring, enfettering, encumbering, obs- tracting (business, state of
circumstances & c . ) Ex. of comp. . OKI to bind.) -J, "». ..."
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