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Enhance vs Enshrine - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between enhance and enshrine

is that enhance is to be raised up; to grow larger while enshrine is to preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence.

As verbs the difference between enhance and enshrine

is that enhance is (obsolete) to lift, raise up while enshrine is to enclose (a sacred relic etc) in a shrine or chest.

enhance

English

Alternative forms

* inhance * enhaunce * inhaunce

Verb

(enhanc)
  • (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
    • nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
    (Wyclif Bible)
  • To augment or make something greater.
  • * Southey
    • The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
  • * 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155
    • A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
  • To improve something by adding features.
  • * 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192
    • A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
  • To be raised up; to grow larger.
    • A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    enshrine

    English

    Verb

    (enshrin)
  • 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
    • Other measures, such as compensation for victims, will be enshrined in the proposed new law.