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enknit en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English inknitten, equivalent to en- + knit.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave
   • The tempest which was used mainly as a symbol of adverse fortune in the Comedies and more subtly, though only imagis-tically, in the Histories, becomes from Julius Caesar onwards violent in effect and meaning, closely in-knitted in the whole. 2013, Wilson Knight, Sovereign Flower:
   • She goes ! She comes again ! so flits Now to the window; now retires. Her loveliness the morn befits, And with a, welcome cord enknits And keeps the praise which it inspires. 1885, William Johnston Hutchinson, Miscellaneous Poems, page 52:
   • Did you ever think how these universal stories have become inknitted with the very life of universal history? 1882, The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents, volume 5, page 675:
   • In highest sky, the kindred tear May wet the dust, and jostling feet Polish the stones, the eyes may meet, The thoughts enknit the present, past, Entwine the bay, the flowers cast […] 1886, Horace Eaton Walker, The Lady of Dardale and Other Poems, page 44:
   • Once enknitted into the stern fibre that ran through all her moods, it sought fields of operation. 1901, Basil Marnan, A Daughter of the Veldt, page 301:

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