enclaspment en · NOUN
Etymology
From enclasp + -ment.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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: