Encroach vs Enclave - What's the difference?
encroach | enclave |
(obsolete) to seize, appropriate
to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
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to advance gradually beyond due limits
(rare) Encroachment.
* 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
* 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
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File:Enclave.svg, C is A's enclave and B's exclave.
File:Exclave.svg, C is an exclave of B, but not an enclave of A.
A pene-enclave (resp., pene-exclave) is an area that is an enclave "for practical purposes", but does not meet the strict definition. This is a very technical term.
To enclose within a foreign territory.
As verbs the difference between encroach and enclave
is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while enclave is .As a noun encroach
is (rare) encroachment.encroach
English
Verb
(es)- Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
Derived terms
* encroacher * encroachmentNoun
(es)- All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
- Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
enclave
English
(wikipedia enclave)Noun
(en noun)- The republic of San Marino is an enclave of Italy.
- The streets around Union Square form a Protestant enclave within an otherwise Catholic neighbourhood.
- ...it tends to make marriage itself a lifestyle enclave.