Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Entanglement.
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- noun
embroilment ,entanglement ; the state of being or gettingembrangled
Etymologies
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Examples
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Compared with other items in the Cave œuvre — notably his 1989 novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, with its “embranglement of words” — The Proposition relies more on image than language.
May 2006 2006
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Compared with other items in the Cave œuvre — notably his 1989 novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, with its “embranglement of words” — The Proposition relies more on image than language.
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Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The Mary Todd embranglement is simply the fact that as a result of this situation where Lincoln wanted out of their relationship and Mary resisted, and Lincoln became emotionally -- began to sink into kind of a despondency.
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The embranglement is this entanglement that Lincoln got himself into with Mary Todd and he never really could get himself out of.
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LAMB: What's the Mary Todd and -- is it embranglement?
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Farewell embranglement, recrement, fusby and numerous others.
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Lindesay Irvine 2008
kad commented on the word embranglement
"Even in repose he shows a history thick with embranglement, dust-stomping men turning figures in the steep sun." -- Don DeLillo, Underworld
January 5, 2007