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inswathe

inswathe is the archaic spelling of enswathe.

Meaning of enswathe

Verb

enswathe (third-person singular simple present enswathes, present participle enswathing, simple past and past participle enswathed)

  1. (transitive) To swathe or envelop (someone or something), as in swaddling clothes.
    • 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, →OCLC, pages 34–35

Forms of inswathe

third-person singular presentinswathes
present participleinswathing
past participleinswathed
pastinswathed

Origin of inswathe

From in- + swathe.

Questions about inswathe

What is inswathe the archaic spelling of?
Inswathe is the archaic spelling of enswathe.

Words near inswathe in the dictionary

  1. insusceptibly
  2. insusceptive
  3. insusurration
  4. inswarming
  5. inswarmings
  6. inswathe
  7. inswathed
  8. inswathes
  9. inswathing
  10. insweep
  11. insweeping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inswathe (page history and authors); enswathe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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