enclaspment

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noun

clasp; embrace

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

nounenclaspment (uncountable)
  1. uncountableclasp; 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

From enclasp + -ment.

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enclaspment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enclaspment

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“enclaspment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enclaspment. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enclaspment,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enclaspment.

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