英语词汇“inwrought”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Inwrought is an archaic and literary adjective that describes decoration woven or worked into fabric, stonework, metalwork or other material. To understand inwrought, imagine goblets encrusted or inwrought with jewels, and garments inwrought with silver and gold.

If inwrought makes you think of a Tolkein-esque fantasy world where magically empowered swords are wrought on Elven fires, good. Inwrought comes from the Middle English word for "work or make," and should conjure the early English history Tolkein drew on for inspiration. If the Middle English associations are leaving you cold, just remember inwrought by remembering the relationship between wrought, meaning "worked or made," and wright, which means "maker," as in a playwright, or "a maker of plays." Pretty soon inwrought's meaning will be inwrought into the fabric of your brain.

VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT

Thanks, Donna Tartt, for Weaving in "Inwrought"

In the first sentences of her new, highly-acclaimed novel The Goldfinch (coming out this month) Donna Tartt uses the uncommon inwrought to conjure a mood of creepy fairy tale isolation.

While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years. I'd been shut up in my hotel for more than a week, afraid to telephone anybody or go out; and my heart scrambled and floundered at even the most innocent noises: elevator bell, rattle of the minibar cart, even church clocks tolling the hour, de Westertoren, Krijtberg, a dark edge to the clangor, an inwrought fairy-tale sense of doom.

Just as a wright is an old fashioned way of referring to someone who makes or builds something, as a wheelwright or a playwright might do, wrought is an old fashioned way of saying "worked" or "made." Inwrought then refers to the manner in which something is made, specifically where decorative elements are "worked into" the materials in question.

It's not a word you hear often — the usage tracker on our definition page, though replete with literary references, shows nothing for inwrought from news, tech, sports, business, or arts and culture sources. So it is a bold and original statement Tartt makes by putting inwrought on page one of her novel. And yet perfectly appropriate to the mood of her character, whose freewheeling imagination mixes her current sense of danger and isolation with old stories of dangers and tests, carried into her memory via the chiming of centuries-old clocktower bells.

WORD FAMILY

wrought: inwrought, overwrought, wroughtest

USAGE EXAMPLES

We thank Thee more that we have his life inwrought into the very fabric of the life of the nation.

Perin, Florence Hobart, The Optimist's Good Morning(2012)

His affirmation of that awful iniquity, inwrought in two centuries and a half of slavery, is no pharisaic indictment of the South.

Beardslee, Clark S., Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;...(2012)

The Mohawks have gone from us, indeed, leaving us only a memory, all inwrought in a thick array of Indian names.

Walworth, Ellen H., The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakw...(2011)

adj having a decorative pattern worked or woven in

an inwrought design

Syn

adorned, decorated

provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction

单词	inwrought
释义	inwrought (once / 36480 pages) adj Inwrought is an archaic and literary adjective that describes decoration woven or worked into fabric, stonework, metalwork or other material. To understand inwrought, imagine goblets encrusted or inwrought with jewels, and garments inwrought with silver and gold. If inwrought makes you think of a Tolkein-esque fantasy world where magically empowered swords are wrought on Elven fires, good. Inwrought comes from the Middle English word for "work or make," and should conjure the early English history Tolkein drew on for inspiration. If the Middle English associations are leaving you cold, just remember inwrought by remembering the relationship between wrought, meaning "worked or made," and wright, which means "maker," as in a playwright, or "a maker of plays." Pretty soon inwrought's meaning will be inwrought into the fabric of your brain. VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Thanks, Donna Tartt, for Weaving in "Inwrought" In the first sentences of her new, highly-acclaimed novel The Goldfinch (coming out this month) Donna Tartt uses the uncommon inwrought to conjure a mood of creepy fairy tale isolation. While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years. I'd been shut up in my hotel for more than a week, afraid to telephone anybody or go out; and my heart scrambled and floundered at even the most innocent noises: elevator bell, rattle of the minibar cart, even church clocks tolling the hour, de Westertoren, Krijtberg, a dark edge to the clangor, an inwrought fairy-tale sense of doom. Just as a wright is an old fashioned way of referring to someone who makes or builds something, as a wheelwright or a playwright might do, wrought is an old fashioned way of saying "worked" or "made." Inwrought then refers to the manner in which something is made, specifically where decorative elements are "worked into" the materials in question. It's not a word you hear often — the usage tracker on our definition page, though replete with literary references, shows nothing for inwrought from news, tech, sports, business, or arts and culture sources. So it is a bold and original statement Tartt makes by putting inwrought on page one of her novel. And yet perfectly appropriate to the mood of her character, whose freewheeling imagination mixes her current sense of danger and isolation with old stories of dangers and tests, carried into her memory via the chiming of centuries-old clocktower bells. WORD FAMILY wrought: inwrought, overwrought, wroughtest USAGE EXAMPLES We thank Thee more that we have his life inwrought into the very fabric of the life of the nation. Perin, Florence Hobart, The Optimist's Good Morning(2012) His affirmation of that awful iniquity, inwrought in two centuries and a half of slavery, is no pharisaic indictment of the South. Beardslee, Clark S., Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;...(2012) The Mohawks have gone from us, indeed, leaving us only a memory, all inwrought in a thick array of Indian names. Walworth, Ellen H., The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakw...(2011) adj having a decorative pattern worked or woven in an inwrought design Syn adorned, decorated provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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