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verb
Infold  v. t.  (past & past part. infolded; pres. part. infolding)  (Written also enfold)  
1.
To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. "Gilded tombs do worms infold." "Infold his limbs in bands."
2.
To clasp with the arms; to embrace. "Noble Banquo,... let me infold thee, And hold thee to my heart."





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"Infold" Quotes from Famous Books



... fays! your airy number Have sung him truly into slumber: For this performance I your debtor prove.— Not yet art thou the man, to catch the Fiend and hold him!— With fairest images of dreams infold him, Plunge him in seas of sweet untruth! Yet, for the threshold's magic which controlled him, The Devil needs a rat's quick tooth. I use no lengthened invocation: Here rustles one that soon will work ...
— Faust • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
... around the dead. There were tears,—for "tears well befit earth's partings;" there was sorrow,—for what bitterness is like unto that of the bereaved, when the grave opens to infold the heart's best treasure? Yet FAITH, and HOPE, and LOVE were there, assuaging those tears, and mitigating that sorrow. FAITH, even while her cheeks were wet, exclaimed, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders


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