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enfetter

American  
[en-fet-er] / ɛnˈfɛt ər /

verb (used with object)

  1. to bind with or as with fetters.

Etymology

Origin of enfetter

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- 1 + fetter

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And then for her To win the Moore, were to renownce his Baptisme, All Seales, and Simbols of redeemed sin: His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue, That she may make, vnmake, do what she list, Euen as her Appetite shall play the God, With his weake Function.

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