encheason
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French encheson, from encheoir.
Noun[edit]
encheason (plural encheasons)
- (obsolete) A cause, reason.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Certes (said he) well mote I shame to tell / The fond encheason, that me hither led.