To provide shelter or protection to someone or something.
From English prefix 'en-' (to put into or cause to be) + 'shelter' (a place of protection). Follows the same word-formation pattern as 'enshell,' creating a causative verb that means to provide something with shelter.
Medieval and Renaissance English writers loved creating these 'en-' verbs, and 'enshelter' appears in classical poetry to convey the idea of protective embrace—it's more poetic and emotional than the plain word 'shelter,' which is why poets favored it over simpler alternatives.
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