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encincturement

encincturement noun: the act of encincturing or girding.

Noun

encincturement (uncountable)

  1. The act of encincturing or girding.
  2. The state or quality of being encinctured or girded.
    • ...city itself, though not properly a fortress, was sufficiently strong, in its encincturement of 'wall and towers and river, to be able to make a stubborn resistance.1814, John Marius Wilson, The Duke of Wellington, page 306
    • ...abounds in mild and soft pictures of rural beauty ; it derives picturesqueness from its encincturement with intricate bands of sea, overhung by the lofty and hard...1842, Chambers William, The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland, page 668

Origin of encincturement

From encincture + -ment.

Questions about encincturement

What does encincturement mean?
Encincturement means the act of encincturing or girding.
What part of speech is encincturement?
Encincturement is a noun.

Words near encincturement in the dictionary

  1. encina
  2. encinal
  3. encinas
  4. encincture
  5. encinctured
  6. encincturement
  7. encinctures
  8. encincturing
  9. encinder
  10. encindered
  11. encindering

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