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encagement

encagement is the alternative form of incagement.

Meaning of incagement

Noun

incagement (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Confinement in, or as if in, a cage.
    • I […]demaund, whether your worship since your incagement[…] haue not had a desire to make greater or lesse water1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of encagement

pluralencagements

Origin of encagement

From encage + -ment.

Questions about encagement

What is encagement the alternative form of?
Encagement is the alternative form of incagement.

Words near encagement in the dictionary

  1. enc
  2. encaenia
  3. Encaenias
  4. encage
  5. encaged
  6. encagement
  7. encagements
  8. encages
  9. encaging
  10. encainide
  11. encaked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encagement (page history and authors); incagement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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