Places something sacred or important in a shrine, or preserves and honors something as sacred or deeply valuable.
Third-person singular present tense of 'enshrine,' formed by adding '-s' to the base verb. This form indicates the action happening in the present with a singular subject.
In modern usage, 'enshrines' appears most in legal language—when we say a law 'enshrines' rights, we're performing a kind of secular sanctification, borrowing religious vocabulary to express how seriously we take our values.
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