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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as entanglement.

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  • Mendum plays Priscilla, a cuckolded married woman fearful of embarking on affairs of her own, and Everett is Chet, a single man trying to free himself from an incestuous intanglement with his sister Alice Anne Chris Jordan.

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  • Mendum plays Priscilla, a cuckolded married woman fearful of embarking on affairs of her own, and Everett is Chet, a single man trying to free himself from an incestuous intanglement with his sister Alice Anne Chris Jordan.

    ABIGAIL LESLIE IS BACK IN TOWN reviewed 2006

  • Could I, by any means practicable, get you out of the intanglement into which I suspect you plunged last Friday, I would not spare any pains to effect your release.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

  • To difintricate o«r fclves then from this feeming intanglement, I further consider, that tho* Vifion according to the formal Senfe oS'tty be 'really Thought, as much as any that paiTes in our Minds, yet even thus confiderM it is a feetfliar Thought, a$ having fomething in the man -

    An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for ... 1704

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