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unencroached

unencroached adjective: not encroached.

Adjective

unencroached (not comparable)

  1. Not encroached.
    • The bishops and priests are spiritual magistrates; and unless their privileges are guarded and their powers unencroached, the body will be dissolved of course, and everything fall into confusion; […]1843, Charles Jobson Lyon, History of St. Andrews, page 299
    • […] if only because two regimes had become established, the one for the direct supply of transport services, which remained scarcely unencroached, the other in respect of peripheral matters abandoned to the common rules.1967, Common Market Law Review, volume 5, page 201

Origin of unencroached

From un- + encroached.

Questions about unencroached

What does unencroached mean?
Unencroached means not encroached.
What part of speech is unencroached?
Unencroached is an adjective.

Words near unencroached in the dictionary

  1. unencountered
  2. unencouraged
  3. unencouraging
  4. unencouragingly
  5. unencroachable
  6. unencroached
  7. unencroaching
  8. unencrusted
  9. unencrypt
  10. unencryptable
  11. unencrypted

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