encompass
verb (used with object)
encompassment
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a word derived from
encompass.
Example Sentences
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Yanagihara’s characters are able to live this encompassment.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020
That’s an encompassment for the kids around here, where I’m from, stuff like that.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2020
In both, the same aloofness of soul, the same indifference to the judgments of the world, the same courage, the same fatalism, the same encompassment by the shadow of the Most High.
From Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson
Carmen lived with her eyes on Him, despite her dreary mundane encompassment.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
But nobody has blown away from the matter its brumous encompassment and let in the light upon it It is very simple.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
