enfolding , also: infolding

After the briefest possible enfolding of her daughter, she'd given the kid to Svartalf.

The enfolding of the jelly began to slow as the tractor beam pulled it back outward.

Mahart was right-the feeling of safety, of warm and loving enfolding, closed about her.

In sudden terror he struggled against her embrace, buffeted the enfolding, smothering petals.

The bright, meaningless sound washed and broke over me, and I let it, surrendering to its enfolding, random signal, closing my eyes.

Cusanus wrote of the enfolding of creation in God and their unfolding in creation.

"To Braha, Brother Hyriss, and the enfolding of the Prophet."

The latter is an enfolding of pork shards in a slightly sweet bean paste with a topping of shredded scallions.

Within these walls the Earth is globed: above, below, and upon all sides is Vaiya, the Enfolding Ocean.

Enfolding Zoa in her embrace, Sianna nestled her nose into Zoa's silky hair and breathed deeply.

In nature like to Outer Sea, or Encircling water, but less buoyant than air, and Ocean, or Enfolding Ocean surrounding The Outer Sea.

He is particularly known for his work on mind-body-studies, building on David Bohm's interpretation of quantum mechanics, in particular Bohm's view of the cosmos as an enfolding and unfolding whole including mind and matter.

Numbly resigned to accept what he had invited, whatever might be the cost, Marek closed his eyes and eased back on his hunkers, leaning into Cosim's enfolding, letting his hands fall loosely to his sides in token of utter submission.

There is the gentle enfolding of legs in "And the Bridegroom," the hand on thigh in "Two Men" and the dreamy rapture of "Ib and Her Husband," not to say the grave devotion with which Mr. Freud depicts his aged mother.

A Century of Children' The story of the first hundred years of Dr. Graham's Homes tells of the enfolding of a vision for children as it has passed on from the founder, Dr John Anderson Graham, to the present day.

LEAD: To the Editor: It made interesting reading to go through "Enfolding India in a Length of Cloth" by Iris Ihde Frey (Shopper's World, Feb. 28), but the author mistakenly indicated that the spinning wheel is symbolically represented on the Indian national flag.