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
But her encompassment, as is so apt to be the case here, was pitiably mediocre.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
But its encompassment by the sea, its peninsularity, is the dominating difference between the Seward Peninsula and the interior, and does indeed make a different country of it altogether.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
Money, indeed, if certain ill-natured gossip of tradesmen be true, has been an inconsiderable factor in the encompassment of this sartorial distinction.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
