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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of intervolve.

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Examples

  • His style, which Aiken described as "like a jungle of rank creepers and ferocious blooms taking shape before one's eyes-magnificently and endlessly intervolved, glistening and ophidianly in motion, coil sliding over coil, and leaf and flower forever magically interchanging," was viewed by a majority with less favor.

    The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953

  • The motions of the heavenly bodies are eccentric and intervolved, yet are most regular when they seem most lawless.

    Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

  • The Bible and the Classics are history and literature in one, so closely intervolved that it is impossible to say where history ends and literature begins.

    History and Literature 1924

  • Villainously dirty walls surround a massive entrance-gate studded with nails and bands of iron, intervolved in artful designs.

    Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

  • In other parts, the whole of the immediately surrounding foliage was illuminated by the interwoven dances in the air of splendidly coloured fire-flies, which sped hither and thither, turned, twisted, crossed, and recrossed, entwining every complexity of intervolved motion.

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

  • They attracted his eyes as might the intervolved play of two large white moths in the penumbra beyond the candle-light, between his father's back and the dark sideboard; but he fought against the attraction because he knew that to be aware of a servant was an offence against good manners at table.

    Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • To achieve supremacy the one had to create a throbbing actuality, a world of keenest living, of acts and intervolved situations and episodes: the other to fashion a mentality so passionately alive that its manifold phases should have all the reality of concrete individualities.

    Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

  • To achieve supremacy the one had to create a throbbing actuality, a world of keenest living, of acts and intervolved situations and episodes: the other to fashion a mentality so passionately alive that its manifold phases should have all the reality of concrete individualities.

    Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880

  • The records of Massachusetts Bay are full of suggestive incongruities between the ideal, single-souled life which its founders hoped to lead, and the jealousies, the opposing opinions, or the intervolved passions of individuals and of parties, which sometimes unwittingly cloaked themselves in religious tenets.

    A Study Of Hawthorne Lathrop, George P 1876

  • Massachusetts Bay are full of suggestive incongruities between the ideal, single-souled life which its founders hoped to lead, and the jealousies, the opposing opinions, or the intervolved passions of individuals and of parties, which sometimes unwittingly cloaked themselves in religious tenets.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

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