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emmarble en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈmɑː(ɹ)bəl/

Etymology

From em- + marble.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete, poetic) Alternative form of enmarble.
   alt of enmarble
   • pictured or emmarbled dreams 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Crowned and Buried:
   • Thou dost emmarble the proud heart. 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymn in Honour of Love:
   • But all the blowes and pressures were so farre from softning their hearts, that they hardened and emmarbled them more and more. 1630, Robert Bolton, “A Sermon preached at Lent Assises, Anno Domini, MDCXXX”, in Mr. Boltons Last and Learned Worke of the Foure last Things, Death, Iudgement, Hell, and Heaven. With his Assise-Sermons and Notes on Iustice Nicolls his Funerall, 4th edition, London, published 1639, page 220:

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