inwrought
Americanadjective
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worked in or closely combined with something.
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wrought or worked with something by way of decoration.
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Archaic. wrought or worked in, as a decorative pattern.
adjective
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worked or woven into material, esp decoratively
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rare blended with other things
Etymology
Origin of inwrought
Example Sentences
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A search for some identity that came with more inwrought despondence than he could manufacture out of his own gene pool?
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011
Here is genuine humility, not an attitude assumed, but a virtue inwrought.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
To a great charm of style he adds selectiveness; in A Daughter of the Morning, the characterisation is inwrought, just as in A Boy's Marriage it is passionate.
From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel
We thank Thee more that we have his life inwrought into the very fabric of the life of the nation.
From The Optimist's Good Morning by Perin, Florence Hobart
This transcendent, all-commanding sense of duty, springing from within, and also descending from above, seated centrally within his character, is centrally and inseparably inwrought within his fame.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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