enwomb

English

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Etymology

From en- +‎ womb.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -uːm

Verb

enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)

  1. (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].
    • 2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary‎[1], Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:
      Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')
  2. (poetic or archaic) To enclose.

References

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb

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