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Enwomb vs Entomb - What's the difference?

enwomb | entomb |

As verbs the difference between enwomb and entomb

is that enwomb is (poetic|archaic) to place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive while entomb is to deposit in a tomb.

enwomb

English

Alternative forms

* inwomb

Verb

(en verb)
  • (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
  • *:For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2007 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=John Goldingay, David Payne , title=Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group , isbn=9780567030726 , page= , passage=Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb' ) }}
  • (poetic, or, archaic) To enclose.

    • References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwomb

    Anagrams

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    entomb

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to deposit in a tomb