encheason

English

Etymology

From Old French encheson, from encheoir.

Noun

encheason (plural encheasons)

1. (obsolete) A cause, reason.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Certes (said he) well mote I shame to tell / The fond encheason, that me hither led.