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enclaspment

enclaspment noun: clasp; embrace.

Noun

enclaspment (uncountable)

  1. clasp; embrace
    • How the constant forward motion of the text never arrives at its destination (the globe is circumnavigable only in theory; the world cannot in the end be contained within a circle's enclaspment).2010, Elaine Treharne, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English, page 612

Origin of enclaspment

From enclasp + -ment.

Questions about enclaspment

What does enclaspment mean?
Enclaspment means clasp; embrace.
What part of speech is enclaspment?
Enclaspment is a noun.

Words near enclaspment in the dictionary

  1. encl
  2. encl.
  3. enclasp
  4. enclasped
  5. enclasping
  6. enclaspment
  7. enclasps
  8. enclathrated
  9. enclathration
  10. enclathrations
  11. enclavate

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