Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

enknit

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: enknit
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Did you ever think how these universal stories have become inknitted with the very life of universal history?"
"She goes ! She comes again ! so flits Now to the window; now retires. Her loveliness the morn befits, And with a, welcome cord enknits And keeps the praise which it inspires."
"In highest sky, the kindred tear May wet the dust, and jostling feet Polish the stones, the eyes may meet, The thoughts enknit the present, past, Entwine the bay, the flowers cast […]"
"Once enknitted into the stern fibre that ran through all her moods, it sought fields of operation."
"The tempest which was used mainly as a symbol of adverse fortune in the Comedies and more subtly, though only imagis-tically, in the Histories, becomes from Julius Caesar onwards violent in effect and meaning, closely in-knitted in the whole."

Etymology

From Middle English inknitten, equivalent to en- + knit.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: en
Root: inknitten

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

enknits (present, singular) enknitting (participle, present) enknitted (participle, past) enknitted (past) inknit (alternative) in-knit (alternative)

Questions

What does enknit mean?: To knit in; intwine; (by extension) to interweave
Where does enknit come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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