Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cause; reason; occasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Occasion, cause, or reason.
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Examples
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And as the debonair king might have escaped by the next ship nigh thence, always he yielded himself with his good gree, to the end that he might deliver his people through the encheson of him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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Howbeit, her ill husbandry was right then mine encheson [Note 6].
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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And for encheson thereof, they drove Brute out of the land, and would not suffer him among them.
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth ... 1813
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He was defensor, without dread, of the liberties of the church, whereof it happed that as a sergeant of the king’s had taken and led with him the bishop’s horse of Trygvier for the encheson of the centime of the goods of the foresaid bishop, S. Ives then being in the office of official, virtuously took the said horse join the said sergeant and led him again unto the bishop’s place.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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