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  • verb Present participle of inweave.

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Examples

  • The Manóbo woman, unlike the Mandáya women, and women of most other tribes in Mindanáo, has never developed the art of inweaving ornamental figures.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • The thoughtful reader soon finds this inweaving of

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

  • The thoughtful reader soon finds this inweaving of a larger purpose adding greatly to the idyllic loveliness of these scenes.

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • Then we might say that this particular effect of light, this sudden inweaving of gold thread through the texture of the haystack, and the poplars, and the grass, gives the scene artistic qualities; that it is like a picture.

    The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • Then we might say that this particular effect of light, this sudden inweaving of gold thread through the texture of the haystack, and the poplars, and the grass, gives the scene artistic qualities, that it is like a picture.

    The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • History, all-inweaving tissue of, 15; by what strange chances do we live in, 36;

    Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys.

    The Egoist George Meredith 1868

  • These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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