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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"And in this case, there could have been a more meaningful reason behind it. By tying the homeland pottery into this enchainment, they're bringing those pots with them into the next generation."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
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
