encincturement

English

Etymology

From encincture +‎ -ment.

Noun

encincturement (uncountable)

1. The act of encincturing or girding.
2. The state or quality of being encinctured or girded.
   • 1814, John Marius Wilson, The Duke of Wellington, page 306

     ...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.

   • 1842, Chambers William, The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland, page 668

     ...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...

   • 1867, Randall McCollum, The Highlands of Cavan, page 285

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