Enfolding, infolding ppl. a.

[f. as prec. + -ING².] That enfolds.

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1669. Bunyan, Holy Citie, 169. An infolding Mystery wrapped up, and inclosed.

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1735. H. Brooke, Univ. Beauty, I. 259 (R.). In balm imbosom’d every region lies, Of ambient ether and infolding skies.

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1827. Keble, Chr. Y., St. Michael, ix. Waft us heaven-ward with enfolding wing.

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1879. Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 144. An infolding fire and a supernatural sound arrested their progress.

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