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- verb Simple past of
enchain . - verb Past participle of
enchain
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bound with chains
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Examples
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His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers.
The Last Man 2003
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His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers.
I.6 1826
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His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers.
The Last Man 1826
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His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers.
The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength.
Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans Clay Farris Naff 2011
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The problem, as I see it, is that we have allowed ourselves to be enchained by bureaucracy, corpocracy, consumerism and militarism for so long that we have forgotten what it is to be free.
John W. Whitehead: The 2010 Elections: Full of Sound and Fury, and Signifying Nothing John W. Whitehead 2010
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It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength.
Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans Clay Farris Naff 2011
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But so long as it remains enchained to ancient doctrines, so long as the faithful believe these have the force of law, so long as believers surrender their conscience to the dictates of popes, imams, or other God-channelers, then the harm religion does will outweigh the good.
Clay Farris Naff: What Westboro Baptist Got Right Clay Farris Naff 2011
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It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength.
Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans Clay Farris Naff 2011
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It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength.
Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans Clay Farris Naff 2011
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