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enfolding

n. A folding around something. vb. (present participle of enfold English)

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enfolding

n. the action of enfolding something [syn: involution]

Usage examples of "enfolding".

The girls slowly rise from their enfolding shadow, aware the game has been absorbed, all shadows subtotaled in this nightstreaming dye.

His cloak settled lovingly around him, enfolding him like the wings of a great black bird.

He felt Lysandra’s hands tighten on his shoulders as he tried to escape her hold, felt his cloak gather around him, enfolding him, loving him, and he knew the end was near.

What follows, then, is a cheerful parable of your being and your becoming, an apologue of that Emptiness which forever issues forth, unfolding and enfolding, evolving and involving, creating worlds and dissolving them, with each and every breath you take.

She felt Afra 's arms enfolding her and she leaned into his protective clasp.

And Lars slipped his arms about her waist, enfolding her to him, and burying his face in her short crisp curls.

Jaxom was conscious of having to pull himself out of a soft, black enfolding pit from which he was loath to move.

Even as the shape of it registered, the man-made lightning exploded out of it again, crackling with energy and power, a terrible bright lance through the enfolding night, burning everything in its path.

All around its shattered trunk, the ground was burned and denuded as well, and their fire cast its broken giant's shadow into the enfolding darkness.

Even in the enfolding twilight, they shimmered with a vibrancy that seemed so foreign to everything that had gone before that it was as if the travelers had entered a dream world.

Spots of iridescence given off by organisms growing on the plant life began to shimmer softly in the enfolding darkness.

The largest were farther back, barely visible through the enfolding darkness and the pale wash of diffused sunlight, and many were thicker than his body.

He stepped out of the enfolding pines and walked quickly to the street.

His deep voice was little more to her than a soothing vibration beneath her cheek, a purring background to the sensual dream enfolding her.

Shannon was a living warmth enfolding him, a sigh and a caress and a tender, searching flame that set his body afire.