MEANING
1. To place something in a shrine or comparable sacred repository.
2. To preserve or establish something as highly valued, authoritative, or protected.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- enshrine a relic
- enshrine remains
On the page
The relic was enshrined beneath the altar.
The account described how the remains had been enshrined after the procession.
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Word forms
- Base
- enshrine
- Past tense
- enshrined
- Past participle
- enshrined
- Present participle
- enshrining
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- enshrine
- Present continuous
- am/is/are enshrining
- Present perfect
- have/has enshrined
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been enshrining
- Past
- enshrined
- Past continuous
- was/were enshrining
- Past perfect
- had enshrined
- Past perfect continuous
- had been enshrining
- Future
- will enshrine
- Future continuous
- will be enshrining
- Future perfect
- will have enshrined
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been enshrining
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: enshrine; enshrines; enshrined; enshrined; enshrining Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: enshrines.
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