emmarble

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Etymology

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From em- +‎ marble.

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emmarble (third-person singular simple present emmarbles, present participle emmarbling, simple past and past participle emmarbled)

  1. (obsolete, poetic) Alternative form of enmarble
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymn in Honour of Love:
      Thou dost emmarble the proud heart.
    • 1630, Robert Bolton, “A Sermon preached at Lent Assises, Anno Domini, MDCXXX”, in Mr. Boltons Last and Learned Worke of the Foure last Things, Death, Iudgement, Hell, and Heaven. With his Assise-Sermons and Notes on Iustice Nicolls his Funerall, 4th edition, London, published 1639, page 220:
      But all the blowes and pressures were so farre from softning their hearts, that they hardened and emmarbled them more and more.
    • 1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Crowned and Buried:
      pictured or emmarbled dreams

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