Meanings
comparative more inworn · superlative most inworn
- Worn or worked into; inwrought.
I perſwade me that whatever faultines was but ſuperficial to Prelaty at the beginning, is now by the juſt Judgment of God, long ſince branded and inworn into the very eſſence thereof.
1642, John Milton, chapter I, in The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 224
Origin
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