Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
engulfment .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of ingulfing, or the state of being ingulfed.
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- noun Archaic form of
engulfment .
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Examples
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It is a very surprising sight to see three or four men thus dashed for nearly a mile toward the shore at the speed of an express train, every moment about to be overwhelmed by a roaring breaker, whose white crest was reared high above and just behind them, but always escaping this ingulfment, and propelled before it.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865
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So complete is the organisation of the system, that in the vessels of all kinds which run between this country and New York agents pass to and fro regularly, who ingratiate themselves with emigrants who have not been entrapped at home but are voluntarily seeking new -- and, as they believe, better -- fields for their labour; and in the result they land under the auspices of these persons, and are led straight into the pit which gapes for their ingulfment.
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