enshadow

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

en- +‎ shadow

Verb[edit]

enshadow (third-person singular simple present enshadows, present participle enshadowing, simple past and past participle enshadowed)

  1. (transitive) To cover with a shadow.
    • 1910, E. M. Forster, Howards End:
      Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings []
    • 2005, Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys, The J. Hillis Miller Reader, page 172:
      One of the most pervasive of these images is that of a great enshadowing tree which is personified, a great mother who binds all living things together in the manifold embrace of her leaves and branches.