"enfasten" meaning in English

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          "text": "c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace\nUtterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!\nI, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,\nHave to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.\nI, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence\nIn the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —\nAh! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —\nWorthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her."
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        "To fasten, to bind tightly."
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        "(rare, chiefly literary) To fasten, to bind tightly."
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          "text": "c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace\nUtterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!\nI, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,\nHave to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.\nI, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence\nIn the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —\nAh! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —\nWorthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her."
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