Meanings
verbinswathe (third-person singular simple present inswathes, present participle inswathing, simple past and past participle inswathed)
present singular third person inswathes · participle present inswathing · participle past inswathed · past inswathed
- archaicArchaic spelling of enswathe.
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
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