enmired
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Etymology edit
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enmired
- simple past and past participle of enmire
Adjective edit
enmired (comparative more enmired, superlative most enmired)
- Immersed in mire; bogged down.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 318:
- Discipline, in fact, proved to be one of the chief attractions of Benedictine monasteries, in an age enmired in terrifying lawlessness which longed for the lost order of Roman society.