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to enshrine

to enshrine

22 7.2
Keep something as very important and protect it in law or memory
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈʃraɪn/
  • Formal
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  • They have data protection rights enshrined in the Charter.
  • rights enshrined
  • enshrined in the constitution
  • enshrined principles

It's basically Western stereotypes enshrined as scientific fact.

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Examples

  • The duty of medical confidentiality is enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Twice in the last six months, the Republicans have refused to enshrine IVF as a law.

  • For the first time ever, we're looking at how we can enshrine a general right to choose into law.

  • And there we have seen where people enshrine that in law and it makes things as from my perspective, different.

  • If a real difference has to happen for that to happen, unless it's enshrined in the policy, it will not happen.

  • The best of us lives on enshrined in his music.

  • How do you enshrine the primacy of the House of Commons?

  • The rights enshrined in the Madisonian compromise are supposed to be good against the majority.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Deng's reforms were now enshrined in China's constitution.

  • The contributions of our ancestors must be enshrined in our history books for future generations to remember.

Synonyms

to shrine
vsto enshrine
8.2

To put something in a holy place to honor or protect it

preserves or honors broadly without requiring a physical container
consecrate
vsto enshrine
  • Formal
8.4

Made holy by a ceremony for religious use

honors or protects similarly but without needing formal ceremony
to eternize
vsto enshrine
9.9

To make something last forever in people's memory or art

focuses on honoring or protecting as sacred rather than mere longevity

Antonyms

119 3.9

Ignore something or someone on purpose

44 8.1

To damage or show disrespect to a holy place, for example a grave

How Respected

to worship
169 4.2
to venerate
  • Formal
11 7.4
to enshrine
  • Formal
22 7.2
to honor
  • US
796 2.3
to preserve
496 3.4

Surface Forms

enshrine infinitive
enshrined past
enshrined past participle
enshrining present participle
enshrines third person singular

Morphology

enshrine = shrine (transparent) = en + shrine

Meaning is directly derived from the productive prefix 'en-' (put into or cause to be) plus 'shrine', giving 'place in a shrine' or figuratively 'honour'.

Etymology

The word enshrine starts with en- meaning 'in' and the word shrine, which is a 'sacred' place or box for something holy. So to enshrine something is to put it 'in' a special, respected place or to treat it as very important.