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unencroached

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ encroached.

Adjective

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unencroached (not comparable)

  1. Not encroached.
    • 1843, Charles Jobson Lyon, History of St. Andrews, page 299:
      The bishops and priests are spiritual magistrates; and unless their privileges are guarded and their powers unencroached, the body will be dissolved of course, and everything fall into confusion; []
    • 1967, Common Market Law Review, volume 5, page 201:
      [] if only because two regimes had become established, the one for the direct supply of transport services, which remained scarcely unencroached, the other in respect of peripheral matters abandoned to the common rules.