[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENWRAP. Also concr. a fold. lit. and fig.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., I. x. 10. The third and laste of the smal guttes … hathe many involutions and inwrappynges.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. 62. Darke by reason of many doutefull enwrappyngs.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 34. It [Bindweede] … troubleth them with the inwrapping and circumplication about ye other their stem or stalk.
1619. W. Sclater, Expos. 1 Thess. (1630), 22. In respect of their promiscuous enwrapping in common calamities.
1840. Arnold, in Stanley, Life & Corr. (1844), II. App. 420. Their [the Apennines’] infinite beauty of outline, and the endless enwrappings of their combes.
