Enfolding
[en'fəʊldɪŋ]
Examples
- But her father cheered her, and said at last, gently disengaging himself from her enfolding arms, Take her, Charles! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His conscience was soothed by the enfolding wing of secrecy, which seemed just then like an angel sent down for his relief. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In a trance he lay enfolding Ursula round about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Josie