enwisen

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English

Etymology

en- +‎ wise +‎ -en

Pronunciation

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Verb

enwisen (third-person singular simple present enwisens, present participle enwisening, simple past and past participle enwisened)

  1. Render wiser; make scient by subtle means.
    • 1997, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype, page 355:
      Dwelling who knows where, the archetypes constitute, one might say, a set of psyche instructions that traverse time and space and enwisen each new generation.

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