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third-person singular simple present enswathes, present participle enswathing, simple past and past participle enswathed
(transitive) To swathe or envelop (someone or something), as in swaddling clothes. quotations examples
Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.
1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, pages 34–35