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enshields

enshields is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 enshields

What is enshields the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Enshields is the third-person singular simple present indicative of enshield.

Words near enshields in the dictionary

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

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