Engrave vs Enshrine - What's the difference?
engrave | enshrine |
(lb) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ΒΆ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
(lb) To carve (something) into a material.
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(obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest.
To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 256:
*:At the centre of Muhammad's achievement was the extraordinary poetry which enshrined his revelations.
To protect an idea, ideal, or philosophy within an official law or treaty
As verbs the difference between engrave and enshrine
is that engrave is while enshrine is to enclose (a sacred relic etc) in a shrine or chest.engrave
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Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From earlier ingrave, equivalent to . More at (l).Verb
(engrav)Synonyms
* carve, etch, inscribeEtymology 2
From .Verb
(engrav)- So both agree their bodies to engraue ; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].
Anagrams
* ----enshrine
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Verb
(enshrin)- Other measures, such as compensation for victims, will be enshrined in the proposed new law.
