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Definition of Enfolding
1. Noun. The action of enfolding something.
Definition of Enfolding
1. Verb. (present participle of enfold) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enfolding
1. enfold [v] - See also: enfold
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfolding
Literary usage of Enfolding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Anne Whitney (1906)
"enfolding ESSENCE enfolding Essence—binding all in one, All motion and all
life,—the near, the far,- August,—enthroned beyond or sight or sun And yet most ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... ence the head of the enfolding serpent rests on the head of the Kronos.
The plaques of the bull-slaying Mithra show snakes in various positions (cf. ..."
3. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"But Venus o'er Ascanius' body poured A perfect sleep, and, to her heavenly breast
enfolding him, far, far away upbore To fair ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... but are composed of many yards of fancy-coloured silks wound round the nether
limbs and gradually enfolding the body, covering part of the bosom, ..."
5. The Poet in the Desert by Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1915)
"Mercifully enfolding the nakedness of the world With a translucent garment.
POET: The great spaces are opened up And the largeness of Creation penetrates us ..."
6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"GRACE AND LOVE Two flower-enfolding crystal vases she I love fills daily, mindful
but of one: And close behind pale morn she, like the sun Priming our world ..."
7. God in His World: An Interpretation by Henry Mills Alden (1890)
"OUR Christian life is, then, at once a heavenly enfolding, and an earthly unfolding,
according to the heavenly type — the image of the Son. ..."
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