[f. ENVELOP v. + -MENT; cf. Fr. enveloppement.] The action of enveloping; the state of being enveloped. concr. That which envelops; a wrapping, covering. Also fig.
1763. A. Tucker, Freewill, Pref. p. xxvi. (R.). It is become difficult to see any sense at all, through their envelopements.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. ii. Reverence … springs forth undying from its mean envelopment of Fear.
1842. J. H. Newman, Ch. of Fathers, 34. Various diseases were cured … by the touch of the holy bodies or their envelopments.
1879. Rutley, Stud. Rocks, x. 160. Microscopic envelopments of quartz have been met with in chabasite.
