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Definition of Embroilments
1. embroilment [n] - See also: embroilment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroilments
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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