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English
Etymology
From en- + shield.
Verb
enshield (third-person singular simple present enshields, present participle enshielding, simple past and past participle enshielded)
- (archaic, transitive) To shield; to defend.
1845 December, James Russell Lowell, “The Present Crisis”, in Poems, revised edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, published 1849, →OCLC, page 56:Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 't is Truth alone is strong, / And, albeit she wander outcast now, I see around her throng / Troops of beautiful, tall angels to enshield her from all wrong.
- c. 1849, Joel Tiffany, A Treatise on the Unconstitutionality of American Slavery, Cleveland, Ohio: J. Calyer, Chapter 17, pp. 127-128,
- Our conclusion then is, that the Federal government has full and exclusive jurisdiction over all the Territories of the United States; and that the native inhabitants of those Territories are citizens of the United States and subject to HER jurisdiction. That they are enshielded by the Federal Constitution and entitled to all the privileges and immunities guaranteed by that instrument to persons and citizens of the Union.
1867, Amanda T. Jones, “Atlantis”, in Poems, New York, Canto 2, stanza 2, p. 22:A thousand lucent, winding rivers strayed / By fragrant mounds, where flights of golden bees / The leaf-enshielded chalices o’erweighed, / Spilling the dew to reach the honey-lees;
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