to enshrine
22
7.2
- verb
- /ɪnˈʃraɪn/
- Formal
:
consagrar
- 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.
- It's basically Western stereotypes enshrined as scientific fact.
- Deng's reforms were now enshrined in China's constitution.
- 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.
- But on top of that, they have public transport service frequency standards, which are enshrined in law.
- In fact, it's enshrined, as some of you may know, in the charter of the World Bank.
- So it's a pretty enshrined protected right right now.
- Dyes should enshrine it in that thing, the constitution.
- And there we have seen where people enshrine that in law and it makes things as from my perspective, different.
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 put something in a holy place to honor or protect it
Made holy by a ceremony for religious use
To make something last forever in people's memory or art
Antonyms
How Respected
169
4.2
- Formal
11
7.4
- Formal
22
7.2
- US
796
2.3
496
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.