encroachment

[ en-krohch-muh nt ]

/ ɛnˈkroʊtʃ mənt /

an act or instance of encroaching.

anything taken by encroaching.

Origin of encroachment

1425–75; late Middle English encrochement < Anglo-French. See encroach, -ment

non·en·croach·ment, noun

The increasing pressure to veil is a recent trend, and in some places it is an encroachment on local custom.

The True Muslim Revolutionaries and Their Fight Against Extremism |Timothy Michael Law |August 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But it was not alone this encroachment upon their lands, which roused their savage passions.

Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet |Benjamin Drake
The encroachment on the calibre of the tube may be quite slight, or may be so great as to amount to almost complete occlusion.

A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II |Various
Where a growth of cottonwood had held back the encroachment of the willows there usually was thick grass and underbrush.

The Lone Star Ranger |Zane Grey

It would be an encroachment upon his privileges to concern oneself with them.

Mentally Defective Children |Alfred Binet
This expedition was in no sense the result of general agitation against French encroachment.

Colonel Washington |Archer Butler Hulbert