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enshield

verb

Etymology

From en- + shield.

  1. derived from *(s)kelH-✻ — “cut, split”
  2. inherited from *skelduz✻ — “shield”
  3. inherited from *skeldu✻
  4. inherited from scield — “shield”
  5. inherited from scheld
  6. prefixed as enshield — “en + shield”

Definitions

  1. To shield

    To shield; to defend.

    • Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, / And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng / Troops of beautiful, tall angels to enshield her from all wrong.
    • A thousand lucent, winding rivers strayed / By fragrant mounds, where flights of golden bees / The leaf-enshielded chalices o’erweighed, / Spilling the dew to reach the honey-lees;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA