All 3 Uses of
encompass
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.†
Chpt 2
- The narrow lane of stubble encompassing the field grew wider with each circuit, and the standing corn was reduced to a smaller area as the morning wore on.†
Chpt 2 *
- Thus they all worked on, encompassed by the vast flat mead which extended to either slope of the valley—a level landscape compounded of old landscapes long forgotten, and, no doubt, differing in character very greatly from the landscape they composed now.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
to include, surround, or take in completely -- whether by covering, holding, or involving something fully