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encroachment
[ en-krohch-muhnt ]
Other Words From
- nonen·croachment noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of encroachment1
Example Sentences
Is this a win for gay rights, or an encroachment on religious liberty?
The increasing pressure to veil is a recent trend, and in some places it is an encroachment on local custom.
Consistent encroachment is pulling sales that would have taken place on Black Friday earlier in the week.
Christian groups have every right to defend themselves against encroachment by the government, and they absolutely should do so.
Mothers who are their own nursemaids have to resist the temporary encroachment of the Quarter's business world.
The present rate of encroachment amounts, I was told, to nearly twelve feet a year.
Treaty of Westphalia mended much of this, and set fair limits to Papist encroachment;—had said Treaty been kept: but how could it?
Thus happily did they guard against every encroachment on the rights of the subject.
A shady byway of judicial encroachment is thus rather surreptitiously indicated.
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