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Enfolding

noun
1.
The action of enfolding something.  Synonym: involution.



Enfold

verb
1.
Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.  Synonyms: enclose, envelop, enwrap, wrap.






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"Enfolding" Quotes from Famous Books



... suddenly out of the dim, enfolding silence of the woods, and Magda paused in the midst of a final pirouette. A man was standing leaning against the trunk of a tree, watching her with whimsical grey eyes. Behind him, set up in the middle of a clearing amongst the trees, an easel and stool evidenced ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... all terrestrial things—still holding Thy wrinkled forehead high; Whose every scam, earth's history enfolding, ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... old and the new? From the depths of the grave a cry breaks through And trembles, a sky-lark blind in the azure, The depths of the all-enfolding blue. ...
— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... neighborhood, and as they were both industrious, they managed to save up a nice little fortune. But they had no children, and this caused them great sorrow. Finally a son was born, whom they named Jean. They both loved and petted him, enfolding him with their affection, and were unwilling to let him ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant

... hospital sped away. I do not know how; I did not know at the time. Only as one lives and works and breathes and sleeps in the presence of a single thought, enveloping and enfolding everything else. The life was hardly my own life; it was the life of another; or rather the two lives were for the time so joined that they were almost one. In a sort happy, as long as ...
— Daisy in the Field • Elizabeth Wetherell


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