encheason
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English enchesoun, from Anglo-Norman enchaisun, encheson, alteration of achaisun, acheison after the prefix en-.
Noun
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.