ensconced

English

Adjective

ensconced (not comparable)

1. Placed in a secure environment.
   • 2020 September 1, Kate Murphy, “We’re All Socially Awkward Now”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

2. Settled comfortably.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Late Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, 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.

Verb

ensconced

1. simple past and past participle of ensconce

Anagrams

• condences