Usually means: Preserve rights or ideas legally.
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  1. enshrine: Merriam-Webster
  2. enshrine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enshrine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enshrine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enshrine: Vocabulary.com
  6. enshrine: Wordnik
  7. enshrine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enshrine: Wiktionary
  9. enshrine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enshrine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enshrine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enshrine, enshrine: Dictionary.com
  13. enshrine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enshrine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Enshrine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. enshrine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. enshrine: Rhymezone
  18. Enshrine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. enshrine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. enshrine: FreeDictionary.org
  21. enshrine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. enshrine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. enshrine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. enshrine: Legal dictionary

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  1. enshrine: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See enshrined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To enclose (a sacred relic etc.) in a shrine or chest.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To preserve or cherish (something) as though in a shrine; to preserve or contain, especially with some reverence.
verb:  (figurative, law) To protect (an idea, ideal, or philosophy) within an official law or treaty.

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