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inwomb en · VERB

Etymology

From in- + womb.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
   • It was long before the Son of God was inwombed,… 1881, Elizabeth Wilson, quoting Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 1647, Lights and Shadows of Ancient European Mythology, Language and History, Reprint edition, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, →ISBN, page 300:
2. (transitive) To enclose, inwrap.
   • Its faith dies like the inwombed fire of earth, … 1854, Stephen Henry Bradbury, Edenor: A Dramatic Poem, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 61:
   • … epitomizes in his impairment the witchery of the mother … with no access to the outside, he becomes, in effect, inwombed by her. 2009, Katherine Kearns, Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite, Cambridge Univ Press, →ISBN, page 18:
   • Dip under feel that warmth envelope you, cocooned again, inwombed again. 2010 November 12, Derick Van Dusen, “TokeATee Come”, in Hello Poetry, retrieved 27 Aug 2012:
   • The way the bathtub works is that you have to kind of get natal, zygotey, inwombed, stupid with white noise and tranquil with heat. You have to let the calentura run through you, ripple your rippled waters still. You have to pretend that what’s in you is being sweated out, purified. 2008 March 30, Nellie, “You've got to take your mind off him”, in Let Loose Nellie, retrieved 27 Aug 2012:

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