enchain
verb (used with object)
to bind in or as in chain or chains; fetter; restrain.
enchainment
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a word derived from
enchain.
Example Sentences
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The triple is perhaps Yosemite’s most spectacular enchainment, or “link-up” in climber lingo, and only a handful of people in the world — if that many — are capable of doing it in a day.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012
Now my friends in Jackson — Chris Denny, Jess McMillan and Chris Figenshau, a photographer — were dead set on recreating a Euro-style enchainment on United States soil.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
It is impossible to conjecture the strange enchainment of events which restored the lifeless form of my friend to our hands.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
A sister would have meant enchainment to civilization.
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
The enchainment or sequence of thoughts in the mind is at first an accidental one.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
