different between enshielded vs enshield

English

Verb

enshielded

1. simple past tense and past participle of enshield

English

Etymology

en- +? shield

Verb

enshield (third-person singular simple present enshields, present participle enshielding, simple past and past participle enshielded)

1. (archaic, transitive) To shield; to defend.
   • 1846, James Russell Lowell, “Verses, Suggested by the Present Crisis” in The Harbinger, Volume 2, No. 5, 10 January, 1846, p. 78,^[1]

     Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the 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,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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;

Adjective

enshield (comparative more enshield, superlative most enshield)

1. (obsolete) Hidden or screened (as) by a shield (attested only in the quotation below).
   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act II, Scene 4,^[4]

     Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright

     When it doth tax itself; as these black masks

     Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder

     Than beauty could, display’d.

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