Encroachment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCROACHMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of encroaching
• a gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits
• The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion.
• That which is taken by encroaching on another.
• An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.
• any entry into an area not previously occupied
• entry to another\'s property without right or permission
• influencing strongly
• intrusion on a person's territory, rights, etc.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another

Words related to ENCROACHMENT

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Words that contain ENCROACHMENT

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How to use ENCROACHMENT in a sentence

• The consequence is, the lower class of freemen are obliged to put themselves under the protection of some particular datu, which guards them from the encroachment of others.
• Our Government can only be preserved in its purity by the suppression and entire elimination of every claim or tendency of one coordinate branch to encroachment upon another.
• Where a growth of cottonwood had held back the encroachment of the willows there usually was thick grass and underbrush.
• The want of such a provision is the occasion of abuses in regard to existing works, exposing them to private encroachment without sufficient means of redress by law.
• The place was completely protected by the Southminster estate from any encroachment of houses, and even the station itself lay half a mile away inland.
• Up the coast some Russians had established a settlement, much to the disquiet of the authorities, who looked upon this as an encroachment of barbarians menacing Spanish power.
• The Creeks in particular are covered from encroachment by the interposition of the General Government and that of Georgia.
• The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
• The whole idea represents a presumptuous encroachment on the natural laws of development, which can only lead to the most disastrous consequences for humanity generally.
• As champions of the caliph the Turkish sultans disputed the infidels encroachment on the Moslem border.
• In order to observe this fact one must have the rod broad, so as to give a broad transition-band on which the encroachment of the stronger color may be evident.
• She would have resented its claim and authority, and perceived that it was likely to be the first encroachment of a tyranny she did not intend to bow to.
• Being a distinct encroachment of the Papacy upon the episcopal jurisdiction and prerogatives, the Inquisition met at first with some opposition from the bishops.
• The encroachment of the same enemies forced, about thirty years since, both these nations from the banks of the Missouri.
• The Indians of the plain view the encroachment of the strange race on their hunting grounds, with feelings of jealousy and enmity.
• So far as surfaces may indicate, his relations with Philip were at this period placid, and himself loyal, only he is alert always to avert any encroachment of tyranny.
• In 1791 the Bank of New York was located at the corner of William street, and marked the first encroachment upon the strictly private portion of the street.
• This treaty of partition was one of the most impudent schemes of encroachment that tyranny and injustice ever planned.
• The bill was so vigorously opposed by sir John Barnard and others, as a flagrant encroachment upon the liberties of the people, that the house rejected it on the second reading.
• Even this concession of the ministry did not allay the resentment of the people, and their apprehension of encroachment from the Jews.
• It was also contended that the charter of Henry only extended to that part of the river which was within the city, and the lease at Vauxhall was, therefore, an encroachment.
• The king pretended the highest anger at this address, which he represented as a dangerous encroachment upon his prerogative.
• The insidious encroachment of the chronic diseases that sap the vitality of the individual and impair the efficiency of the race is a matter of increasing importance.
• This ghostly encroachment on our erstwhile quiet domain has had more than one inconvenient result.
• The land officially held as described was not, until the population became numerous, a serious encroachment upon this right.
• This is very true, and to this end encroachment must be resisted at the first step.
• In the second place, it is a right founded on the duty of representative bodies, in a free government, to defend the public liberty against encroachment.
• The encroachment of the waves, especially on the eastern side of the Bill, has been more rapid than on any other part of the coast, except perhaps certain parts of Norfolk.
• The natives of Africa are extremely jealous of white men, savage and ferocious in their manners, and in the utmost degree tenacious of any encroachment upon their country.
• He described the gradual encroachment of the whites, and the certainty that they would soon occupy the whole land.
• The threatened encroachment of a few weeks previous, and the causes of demand, as explained by their guests, threw a new light on range values and made the boys doubly cautious.
• The two main features of the Sung period are the rise of a great school of philosophy and the constant encroachment of the Tartars.
• There she confronted the Maccabee with hands extended to ward off the encroachment of his cousin.
• But it was not alone this encroachment upon their lands, which roused their savage passions.

Similar words containing CROACHM without suffix ent and without prefix en

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