enswatheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɛnˈsweɪð/
• 韻: -eɪð
• ハイフネーション: en‧swathe

動詞

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.
   • 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:

     Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.

別の表記

• inswathe (obsolete)

派生語

• enswathement
• enswather