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inweave

American  
[in-weev] / ɪnˈwiv /

verb (used with object)

inwove, inweaved, inwoven, inwove, inweaved, inweaving
  1. to weave in or together.

  2. to introduce into or as into a fabric in weaving.

  3. to combine or diversify with something woven in.


inweave British  
/ ɪnˈwiːv /

verb

  1. (tr) to weave together into or as if into a design, fabric, etc; interweave

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of inweave

First recorded in 1570–80; in- 1 + weave

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But he would represent the Lord as He lived, he would inweave his whole soul with the being of his Saviour so that he might have a friend in the cell.

From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger

But if I knew, my silken friend, That an old man should wear thee, I The coarsest worsted would inweave, Thy finest silk for dog-grass leave, And all thy knots with nettles tie.”

From Servian Popular Poetry by John Bowring

My whole existence must inweave itself with it.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various

The thoughtful reader soon finds this inweaving of a larger purpose adding greatly to the idyllic loveliness of these scenes.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke

Ever inweaving, returning, The near grows out of the far; And Homer shall sing once more in a swing Of the austere Polar Star.

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

To the ground,   With solemn adoration, down they cast   Their crowns, inwove with amaranth and gold.

From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

And all Thy workings are inwove     In Thine eternal plan, Which wills the welfare in Thy love,     And works the weal of man.

From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher

And eke with painful fingers she inwove Many an uncouth stem of savage thorn— "The willow garland, that was for her love, And these her bleeding temples would adorn."

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

She loves to feel the tears upon her cheek, Like a rich veil, with pearls inwove.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

Leaving, moreover, every subject on which its nimble tongue had lighted, damaged by that contact—at loose ends, frayed and ravelled, its inwove pattern just slightly discoloured and defaced.

From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet

Coleridge wrote of Shakespeare's imagination "kindling like a meteor... one sentence begetting the next naturally... the meaning all inwoven".

From BBC Jan. 2, 2016

The above correspondence, which appears also in Syriac, is inwoven with the legend of Addai or Thaddaeus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

Herodotus describes 201 the corselet given by Amasis king of Egypt to the Minerva of Lindus and how it was inwoven or embroidered with gold.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

It rose and fell in eddies, swirling wreaths, and undulations; inwoven with starbeams, as with golden thread, it clothed him about in circles of some magical primordial substance.

From Jimbo A Fantasy by Algernon Blackwood

Really," I exclaimed, "the natural history is good, and is fairly inwoven with the tale.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook

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