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encompassment
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun encompassment has 1 sense
- encompassment(n = noun.state) Array - including entirely; Array is a kind of inclusion
Derived form verb encompass1
CIDE DICTIONARY
encompassment, n.
The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention. [1913 Webster]
"By this encompassment and drift of question."
[1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
encompassment
Circumjacence
N circumjacence, circumambience, environment, encompassment, atmosphere, medium, surroundings, outpost, border, girdle, outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue, neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity, circumjacent, circumambient, circumfluent, ambient, surrounding, circumferential, suburban, around, about, without, on every side, on all sides, right and left, all round, round about.
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