enfastenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈfæsə̆n/

動詞

enfasten (三人称単数 現在形 enfastens, 現在分詞 enfastening, 過去形および過去分詞形 enfastened)

1. (まれに, chiefly literary) To fasten, to bind tightly.
   • c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace

     Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!
     

     I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
     

     Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
     

     I, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence
     

     In the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —
     

     Ah! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —
     

     Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her.