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Definition of Embittered
1. embitter [v] - See also: embitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embittered
Literary usage of Embittered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes
embittered by the Napoleonic "Continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... declared the sad perplexity of the barbarians ; and their aged chief lamented,
in pathetic language, that his private loss was now embittered by a sense ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes
embittered by the Napoleonic "Continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... declared the sad perplexity of the barbarians ; and their aged chief lamented,
in pathetic language, that his private loss was now embittered by a sense ..."
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