Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form a circle about; encircle; inclose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To encircle.
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- verb
Encircle . - verb
Surround .
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It shocks thee that Italians should enring an infant
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Long are the “times” of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again.
Villette 2003
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Long are the "times" of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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