Definition of Embittering

1. Verb. (present participle of embitter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embittering

1. embitter [v] - See also: embitter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embittering

embezzling
embiggen
embiggened
embiggening
embiggens
embillow
embiopteran
embiotocoid
embiotocoids
embitter
embittered
embitteredly
embitteredness
embitterer
embitterers
embittering (current term)
embitterment
embitterments
embitters
emblanch
emblanched
emblanching
emblaze
emblazed
emblazer
emblazers
emblazes
emblazing
emblazon
emblazoned

Literary usage of Embittering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Church of Christ: From the Days of the Apostles, Till the by Joseph Milner (1835)
"... while time embittering my soul, and I knew it not. yet he had no concern in what manner I .... embittering ..."

2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... death will unavoidably follow thereupon, perpetually embittering all the solaces of Ufe, and never suffering men to have the least sincere enjoyment. ..."

3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1888)
"Even there there were elect, with whose faith the generation crooked and embittering was not mixed. But they were fettered, so that they might in no sort ..."

4. Expositions on the Book of Psalms by Augustine (1850)
"Egyptians, nor with melons and gourds, and garlick and ' ' onions, which a generation crooked and embittering did prefer even to bread celestial, ..."

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