enfasten
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) en- + fast + -en
Pronunciation
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Verb
enfasten (third-person singular simple present enfastens, present participle enfastening, simple past and past participle enfastened)
- (rare, chiefly literary) To fasten, to bind tightly.
- c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace
- Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!
- I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
- Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
- I, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence
- In the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —
- Ah! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —
- Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her.
- Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!
- c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace