• Enclosing

    Verb

    1. Present participle of enclose

    Full definition of enclosing

    Noun

    enclosing

    (plural enclosings)
    1. That which encloses.
      • Bible, Exodus 39And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. ... And they set in it four rows of stones: ... the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
    2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
      • 1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings (page 131)Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.
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