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unencroached en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + encroached.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not encroached.
    • […] if only because two regimes had become established, the one for the direct supply of transport services, which remained scarcely unencroached, the other in respect of peripheral matters abandoned to the common rules. 1967, Common Market Law Review, volume 5, page 201:
    • The bishops and priests are spiritual magistrates; and unless their privileges are guarded and their powers unencroached, the body will be dissolved of course, and everything fall into confusion; […] 1843, Charles Jobson Lyon, History of St. Andrews, page 299: