enfoldment

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Nowadays it is not so much pure reason as a wider empirical knowledge of nature, with its consequent transformation of ideas, that makes the doctrine of enfoldment difficult.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

Incessantly this unsubstantial enfoldment took place in her inner sense, like some wild drama among ocean-bed things, far below an unrippled surface.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon

After that sheltering enfoldment in his arms, she drew back, her hands on his shoulders, looking into his face with eyes that showed no consciousness of a lover's first kiss.

From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine

Man is the most perfect enfoldment of nature's electric laws, and the world and the universe are the universal expression of electric life and energy.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward

People wonder why sensitive, self-respecting women are not driven away from the stage by the offences that hedge it; they are driven deeper and farther into its enfoldment.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter