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
Voltaire concerned himself only with the causal enchainment of events and the immediate motives of men.
From The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
Buffon attached the greatest importance to sequence, to close dependence, to continuous enchainment.
From Essays Æsthetical by George H. (George Henry) Calvert
The universe was to him a dwelling, to inhabit with his chosen one; and not either a scheme of society or an enchainment of events, that could impart to him either happiness or misery.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
