enclaspment

noun

enclaspment

noun

Etymology From enclasp + -ment.

1

clasp; embrace

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).2010, Elaine Treharne, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English, page 612:

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