enflesh

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Etymology

From en- +‎ flesh.

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enflesh (third-person singular simple present enfleshes, present participle enfleshing, simple past and past participle enfleshed)

  1. (transitive) To envelop or supply with flesh.
    • 1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, , London: Arnold Hatfield for Edw Blount, →OCLC:
      Vices which are [] enfleshed in him.
    • 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:
      Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

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