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third-person singular simple present intrenches, present participle intrenching, simple past and past participle intrenched
Archaic form of entrench. quotations examples
We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
1693, [John Locke], “§120”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […]
Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea […]
1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269