encircling

encircling (not comparable)

1. enclosing, skirting

   She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

encircling

1. present participle and gerund of encircle

encircling (plural encirclings)

1. encirclement
   • 1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich:

     If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.