Verb (used with object) : to enfold someone in a cloak. ,He wished to enfold her in the warmth of his love. What happened is enfolded in mystery. ,She enfolded him in her arms. ,The material of the skirt had been enfolded to form a loose, graceful drape.    From Dictionary.com. 

Involution or "infolding" of the divine energy into material forms and states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation and the Law of Karma A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect] Reference

She sends you and Hester her love, infolding you both in her eager tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

Invagination: a pouch or sac formed by an infolding or indrawing of the outer surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Better to go for the infolding of Kyoto and Havana than to yearn for the singularity of Königsberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for Snow in Havana] Reference

Ultimately the bark between the stock and scion will split, and you get infolding, just like on the chestnut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953] Reference

And these are fluid cavities within the brain and the infolding of the giruses (ph) on the surface of the brain are -- are illustrated there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2009] Reference

Until that moment I had dreamed of my father's seeing me whilst I was yet a great way off, of resting my weary head upon his warm, infolding heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

We prefer to seek the coincidence of opposites, the infolding of the flame and the rose, the melding of face and chalice, head and pew, Corpus Domini and YAAAHHH!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting for Snow in Havana] Reference

Then, no doubt, under the heightened pressure of an infolding world ~ the formidable energies of attraction (love), still dormant between human molecules, will burst forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [SCIENTISTS FIND OPENING TO ANOTHER WORLD] Reference

The evening breeze wafted them to the quiet dwelling of the tired husbandman, infolding in sweet sleep the inmates of the rural cottage -- from the old man upon the staff, down to the infant in the cradle.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference

Two infolding wings, stretching towards the water, enclose.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference

Its particles easily roll over one another in voluminously infolding wreaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Forces] Reference

Swing your life into the unfolding and infolding of the Infinite White Life of Worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mastery of Self for Wealth Power Success] Reference

Here and there its long arms reached to a neighbouring tree, and seemed to revel while infolding it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference

The few walks she had taken had lulled all sense of uneasiness in venturing into the infolding forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [North of Fifty-Three] Reference

The light that she had not seen in his eyes for so long rose in them -- the old, unfathomable, infolding tenderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bride of the Mistletoe] Reference

It was more like true motherliness than almost any other human affection; it was infolding, protecting, nourishing love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Friendships of Jesus] Reference

On the right, below, those two divine sleepers, redeeming human nature, and infolding expectation in a robe of pearly sheen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference

Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chronicle — Complete] Reference

The prophet conceives himself in the temple. fire infolding itself -- laying hold on whatever surrounds it, drawing it to itself, and devouring it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Did his guilty soul know itself to be standing on the verge of eternity? and did the wretched man feel the horror of great darkness infolding him already?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of Chivalry] Reference

The most notable feature of the anterior mesonotum is the infolding of the body wall on the ventral rim (prephragma (anteriorly)) and first phragma (laterally)) (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

He was silent with the delight of having that lovely creature all to himself, leaning on his arm, in the infolding and protecting darkness, and Kate was likewise silent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

Two infolding wings, stretching towards the water, enclose a court, and through the slender white pillars of the peristyle one beholds in fancy the summer seas of Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05] Reference

He must have stepped on the squid, which caught hold of him with its long and powerful tentaculas, and gradually infolding him in its dreadful embrace, dragged him under the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference

(1/4 mm.) in diameter, being formed by the infolding of the infundibular wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference

There’s still a hint of Zeus’s face in the coiled cloud at the top, but the wind and the cloud’s own infolding is breaking up that visage as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

The foodful earth and all-infolding skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Iliad of Homer] Reference

And all Thy works infolding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets] Reference

Ere flames infolding suffocate his groan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Columbiad] Reference

His neck with fond embrace infolding fast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey] Reference

As we sate here, the flower-infolding buds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference

The infolding timber shut off the outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [North of Fifty-Three] Reference

Of their infolding element; had the angels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference