enclose
verb (used with object)
to shut or hem in; close in on all sides.
encloser
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a word derived from
enclose.
Example Sentences
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His coming had broken in on the slumber of circumstance, widening the present till it became the encloser of remotest chances.
From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
I am the acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.
From Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke
I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an encloser of things to be.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
An author's first or second play is important mainly—to use Whitman's phrase—as "an encloser of things to be."
From The Theory of the Theatre by Clayton Meeker Hamilton
