Enwomb
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Full definition of enwomb
Verb
- (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.6:For not as other wemens commune brood
They were enwombed in the sacred throne
Of her chaste bodie .... - 2007 , John Goldingay, David Payne , Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary Chapter , Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')
- (poetic or archaic) To enclose.