enfoldment
Example Sentences
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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
Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its inhabitants is proportionately advanced.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.
These systems engender an element of dependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and unfold before real progress upwards begins.
From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.
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
She felt a distinct emotion now, but it was different—less tumultuous, and bringing her a soft sense of enfoldment.
From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.