Definition of Ravelments

1. ravelment [n] - See also: ravelment

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravelments

raveled
raveler
ravelers
ravelin
raveling
ravelings
ravelins
ravell'd
ravelled
raveller
ravellers
ravelling
ravellings
ravelly
ravelment
ravelments (current term)
ravels
raven
raven's duck
raven-haired
ravenala
ravenalas
ravened
ravener
raveners
ravening
raveningly
ravenings
ravenlike
ravenous

Literary usage of Ravelments

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

1. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... like either a very simple and straightforward story or else one the ravelments of which are unravelled in a strictly mathematical and orderly fashion. ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"A series of ravelments and squabbling grudges, "-which," says Mademoiselle with much simplicity, "the Devil himself could not understand. ..."

3. Attic & Elizabethan Tragedy by Lauchlan MacLean Watt (1908)
"... besetting difficulties and contradictions of human life and duty, while also he believes that, amid the ravelments of things, the gods must find a clue. ..."

4. Works by Thomas Carlyle (1894)
"A series of ravelments and squabbling judges, ' which,' says Mademoiselle with much simplicity, ' the )evil himself could not understand. ..."

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