Both Uses of
enshrine
in
Middlemarch
- Certainly, if falling in love had been at all in question, it would have been quite safe with a creature like this Miss Vincy, who had just the kind of intelligence one would desire in a woman—polished, refined, docile, lending itself to finish in all the delicacies of life, and enshrined in a body which expressed this with a force of demonstration that excluded the need for other evidence.†
Chpt 2
- He did not shrug his shoulders; and for want of that muscular outlet he thought the more irritably of beautiful lips kissing holy skulls and other emptinesses ecclesiastically enshrined.†
Chpt 4 *
Definition:
protect or hold sacred
or:
place in a shrine (or similar special and protective place)
or:
place in a shrine (or similar special and protective place)