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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


Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

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

He deliberately inwove His life into all that is commonest in life.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Grenville Kleiser

Adown his neck, with myrtle-buds inwove And Syrian dews, his unshorn tresses flow: White is he as the moon in heaven above, But rose is blent with snow.

From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams

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

A vassal prone Before the Sar now placed the stool of gold, Arranged his royal robes with glittering fold Of laces, fringes rich inwove with pearls, Embroidered with quaint figures, curious twirls.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

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

Were man to perish when most fit to live, 438 O how misspent were all these stratagems, By skill divine inwoven in our frame!

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

The rich stuffs with inscriptions inwoven in gold, in the Middle Ages, were called “literatis.”

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

Of what avail are alms-giving, and individual benevolence, and even the offices of Religion, in the presence of evil so gigantic and so inwoven with the very framework of Society?

From Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

Art in those days was closely inwoven with the life of the people; they lived artistic lives.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain

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