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  • verb Present participle of infold.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface

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Examples

  • Keesey acknowledges that writers like Woolf and Proust slow down the unfolding of scene -- which Keesey calls "infolding" -- but she can't see this as an implicit repudiation of "scene" except in its most perfunctory role as a framing device.

    October 2009 2009

  • Keesey acknowledges that writers like Woolf and Proust slow down the unfolding of scene -- which Keesey calls "infolding" -- but she can't see this as an implicit repudiation of "scene" except in its most perfunctory role as a framing device.

    Our Stories 2009

  • Keesey acknowledges that writers like Woolf and Proust slow down the unfolding of scene -- which Keesey calls "infolding" -- but she can't see this as an implicit repudiation of "scene" except in its most perfunctory role as a framing device.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • Involution or "infolding" of the divine energy into material forms and states.

    Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • She sends you and Hester her love, infolding you both in her eager tenderness.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • And these are fluid cavities within the brain and the infolding of the giruses (ph) on the surface of the brain are -- are illustrated there.

    CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2009 2009

  • In extreme confusion, she shut it into its shagreen case, and was going to restore it to her pocket; but infolding it, with her daughter's hand, between each of her own, Mrs. Tyrold said, 'Shall I ever, my dear girl, learn – the history of this locket?'

    Camilla 2008

  • Then, no doubt, under the heightened pressure of an infolding world ~ the formidable energies of attraction (love), still dormant between human molecules, will burst forth.

    SCIENTISTS FIND OPENING TO ANOTHER WORLD 2007

  • GORANI: We've been asking you for your thoughts about the scandal infolding in Italian football.

    CNN Transcript May 15, 2006 2006

  • The highest degree whereof is to write omnia per omnia; which is undoubtedly possible, with a proportion quintuple at most of the writing infolding to the writing infolded, and no other restraint whatsoever.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

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