ensky
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of ensky
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She was no longer a pretty thing to be kissed, no longer even a handsome murderess; she was become a heroine, a martyr, a thing enskied and sainted.
From The Spanish Jade by Hyde, William Henry
Her affection is winged, and in a moment she is enskied.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various
They do not wish the public to gaze and simper at pieces which will probably be enskied or rejected, or hung at a dangerous corner next a popular picture.
From Lost Leaders by Ridge, W. Pett (William Pett)
The enskied Madonna involves many technical difficulties of composition, and demands a high order of artistic imagination.
From The Madonna in Art by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)
Together they had bravoed the great tragedians, and together hopelessly worshipped the beautiful faces, enskied and sainted, of famous actresses.
From Young Lives by Le Gallienne, Richard
I hold you as a thing enskyed, and sainted; By your renouncement an immortal spirit, And to be talked with in sincerity, As with a saint.
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
It was one of her peculiar charms, and often brought to my mind the line addressed to the vowed Isabella, in Measure for Measure: I hold you for a thing enskyed and saintly.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
There will be a market for your wares, the critics will approve, and at the Salon your work will never be either enskyed nor consigned to the catacombs.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Hubbard, Elbert
She is a thing enskyed and sainted, and yet we feel no incongruity in the love of the King of France for her, as we do in the love of the Duke for Isabella.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
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