encircling

1. not comparableenclosing, skirting

   She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of encircle

plural encirclings

1. encirclement

   If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.

   1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich