enfetter

[ en-fet-er ]

verb (used with object)

1. to bind with or as with fetters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enfetter¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + fetter

Example Sentences

And then for her To win the Moore, were to renownce his Baptisme, All Seales, and Simbols of redeemed sin: His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue, That she may make, vnmake, do what she list, Euen as her Appetite shall play the God, With his weake Function.

From Project Gutenberg

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