intervolution
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin inter (“between”), from volvere (“to roll”).
Noun edit
intervolution (countable and uncountable, plural intervolutions)
- (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution
- the intervolutions of a snake
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.
Related terms edit
- “intervolution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.