Meanings
- uncountableThe act of encincturing or girding.
- uncountableThe state or quality of being encinctured or girded.
...wood, its beautiful mansion, its semi-encincturement, with joyous natural lakes, and its extent and vruiety of undulating surface, it ranks high among the...
1867, Randall McCollum, The Highlands of Cavan, page 2852 more examples
...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
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