enclaspment

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English

Etymology

From enclasp +‎ -ment.

Noun

enclaspment (uncountable)

  1. clasp; embrace
    • 2010, Elaine Treharne, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English, page 612:
      How the constant forward motion of the text never arrives at its destination (the globe is circumnavigable only in theory; the world cannot in the end be contained within a circle's enclaspment).