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introvolution rare.|ˌɪntrəʊvəʊˈl(j)uːʃən|
[f. intro- + -volution in evolution, involution, etc. (n. of action f. L. volvĕre to roll).]
The process of involving one thing within another.
1829Lamb Let. to Robinson 17 Apr. in Talfourd Final Mem. (1848) II. 63 Per se, it is good, to show the introvolutions, extravolutions of which the animal frame is capable. 1858De Quincey Th. Grk. Trag. Wks. IX. 56 There are cases occasionally occurring in the English drama and the Spanish, where a play is exhibited within a play..at every step of the introvolution (to neologise a little in a case justifying a neologism), something must be done to differentiate the gradations, and to express the subordinations of life. |