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enshielding

enshielding is the present participle and gerund of enshield.

Meaning of enshield

Verb

enshield (third-person singular simple present enshields, present participle enshielding, simple past and past participle enshielded)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To shield; to defend.
    • Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, / And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng / Troops of beautiful, tall angels to enshield her from all wrong.1845 December, James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”, in Poems, revised edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published 1849, →OCLC, page 56

Questions about enshielding

What is enshielding the present participle and gerund of?
Enshielding is the present participle and gerund of enshield.

Words near enshielding in the dictionary

  1. ensheltering
  2. enshelters
  3. Enshi
  4. enshield
  5. enshielded
  6. enshielding
  7. enshields
  8. Enshih
  9. enship
  10. enshitification
  11. enshittening

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