different between inwrought vs enwrought

English

Etymology

From past participle of inwork.

Adjective

inwrought (comparative more inwrought, superlative most inwrought)

1. Having a design that has been worked or woven in.
2. (figuratively) Fixed, established, ingrained.
   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter X, page 104

     As he had recovered his strength of body, he had recovered his self-command and the energy of his will; he had recovered the memory of all that part of his life which was closely inwrought with his emotions; and he had felt more and more constantly and painfully the uneasy sense of lost knowledge.

Synonyms

• (fixed, established, ingrained): See also Thesaurus:intrinsic

Translations

English

Etymology

en- +? wrought

Adjective

enwrought (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Made; wrought.
   • W. B. Yeats

     Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
     Enwrought with golden and silver light,
     The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
     Of night and light and the half light,
     I would spread the cloths under your feet:
     But I, being poor, have only my dreams; […]

Anagrams

• wroughten