ensconced
English
Adjective
ensconced (not comparable)
- Placed in a secure environment.
- 2020 September 1, Kate Murphy, “We’re All Socially Awkward Now”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- Even if you are ensconced in a pandemic pod with a romantic partner or family members, you can still feel lonely — often camouflaged as sadness, irritability, anger and lethargy — because you’re not getting the full range of human interactions that you need, almost like not eating a balanced diet.
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- Settled comfortably.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 72:
- Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.
- 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 35, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
- Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits.
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Verb
ensconced
- simple past tense and past participle of ensconce
Anagrams
- condences