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