Definition of Embroilments

1. Noun. (plural of embroilment) ¹

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Definition of Embroilments

1. embroilment [n] - See also: embroilment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroilments

embroideresses
embroideries
embroidering
embroiderings
embroiders
embroidery
embroidery frame
embroidery hoop
embroidery needle
embroil
embroiled
embroiler
embroilers
embroiling
embroilment
embroilments (current term)
embroils
embronze
embronzed
embronzes
embronzing
embrothel
embrown
embrowned
embrowning
embrowns
embrue
embrued
embrues
embruing

Literary usage of Embroilments

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

1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1855)
"... finding themselves unable to give any measure of success to their projects by introducing dissensions among them through political embroilments, ..."

2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"arise in India from embroilments with native princes would have devoted himself from the first to the satisfactory settlement of all foreign questions. ..."

3. The History of the Orange Free State by Martin James Boon (1885)
"Owing, however, to the continued embroilments of the burghers with the Basutos, under Moshesh and ..."

4. Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt: Her Early Art-life and Dramatic by William Smyth Rockstro, Henry Scott Holland, Otto Goldschmidt (1891)
"No wonder, that the embroilments which make bitter so much of the dramatic ... Such embroilments, so far as they sprang from the dramatic desire for public ..."

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