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inwrought

worked or woven into material, esp decoratively

inwrought

Closely combined or profusely embellished.

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The committee compared slavery to the castes of India, "deeply and inveterately inwrought in the very texture of society," to the tyranny of "arbitrary government," and to polygamy.

No ordinary sin: antislavery protestants and the discovery of the social nature of morality

3) Hartley's off-quoted remarks from The Go-Between are frequently misattributed to George Eliot, who writes in a similar vein in Daniel Deronda (1876): "A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge: a spot where the definiteness of early memories may be inwrought with affection, and kindly acquaintance with all neighbors, even to the dogs and donkeys, may spread not by sentimental effort and reflection, but as a sweet habit of the blood" (III: 1).

"Nothing's going to change my world": narrating memory and selfhood with the Beatles

The lower part is usually inwrought with dirt intrusions, with content of oil ranging between 5 and 7%.

Oil shale potential in Serbia

Rumour said they lost the colours, / Gold inwrought with fame of old, / But t'was false, alone there failed / Hands the colours to uphold.