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Meaning of encincturement | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. The act of encincturing or girding.
  2. The state or quality of being encinctured or girded.

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.”
“...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...”
“...wood, its beautiful mansion, its semi-encincturement, with joyous natural lakes, and its extent and vruiety of undulating surface, it ranks high among the...”

CEFR level

C2
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