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Encroach vs Seepingly - What's the difference?

encroach | seepingly |

In rare|lang=en terms the difference between encroach and seepingly

is that encroach is (rare) encroachment while seepingly is (rare) gradually encroaching, as if seeping.

As a verb encroach

is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate.

As a noun encroach

is (rare) encroachment.

As an adverb seepingly is

(rare) gradually encroaching, as if seeping.

encroach

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) to seize, appropriate
  • to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
  • * 2005 , .
    • Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
  • to advance gradually beyond due limits

    • Derived terms

    * encroacher * encroachment

    Noun

    (es)
  • (rare) Encroachment.
  • * 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
    • All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
  • * 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
    • 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.

    seepingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (rare) Gradually encroaching, as if seeping.