to shrine

Examples

• All

• Even today, this sword carries the name Grass Mower and is enshrined in the Asta Shrine near Nagoya, Japan.

• It is true that kings may keep secret their information; and then no man ought to inquire after them while they are shrined in their breast.

  Academic text (1994)

• for a benefit to shrine auditorium next Wednesday night

  A Star Is Born (1937)

• Gothic shrines to the wind.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The Ise shrines, with their clean lines, bold shapes, natural materials and textures, and dynamic life and death, were seen as prefiguring all this.

  Academic text (2018)

• The ancient relic was carefully enshrined in a glass case to protect it from damage.

• She felt a deep sense of peace as she enshrined her grandmother's memory in a special album.

Synonyms

E

to enshrine

vsto shrine

• Formal

22 7.2

Keep something as very important and protect it in law or memory

encloses or preserves something physically as in a sacred container

Compounds

A

ancient shrine

1 7.0

A very old place where people worship, often visited for religious reasons

How Preserved

to immortalize

19 7.0

to shrine

8.2

to preserve

496 3.4

to keep

∞ 1.0

to store

463 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology