Definition of Embitterment

1. Noun. The state of being embittered. "The embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him"

Generic synonyms: Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Embitter

Definition of Embitterment

1. n. The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.

Definition of Embitterment

1. Noun. The state of being embittered ¹

2. Noun. Something which embitters ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embitterment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embitterment

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

Literary usage of Embitterment

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

1. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"... with Swain- son—Marriage and embitterment—His second journey to America ends in shipwreck—Befriended—Descends the Ohio in a flatboat—Visit with Audubon, ..."

2. Judaism at Rome: B. C. 76 to A. D. 140 by Frederic Huidekoper (1876)
"In considering this, it is difficult to discriminate fully between the natural results of controversy and the additional embitterment occasioned by the war. ..."

3. History of the Scottish Church by William Stephen (1896)
"... banishment of Covenanters—Overtures for conciliation—Attempt on 'he primate's life—embitterment of Covenanters against the primate— Indulgences offered, ..."

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