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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

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

We saw the glittering cavalcade,   And heard inwove through all, Faint and afar from star to star,   The sliding music fall.

From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean

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

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 and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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

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

Utility does not consist only in adequate space; it has many other features, closely inwoven with it.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

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

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain

It sounded as if she had said it every day, and she knew why; the words and others like them, sweet and commonplace, were inwoven with the texture of her dreams.

From Country Neighbors by Alice Brown

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

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