Our noun "embroilment," which also entered the language in the early 17th century, comes from the same source. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Seward's policy in seeking embroilment with Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
LAMB: What's the Mary Todd -- and is it embroilment?. From Wordnik.com. [Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Time during such an embroilment was hard to measure, and. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Peabody informs Wordsworth of his embroilment in this American political/critical faction. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America] Reference
As a result of his embroilment in the petition campaign, he was expelled from the university. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
The few advantages that the bag might have given us would not outweigh embroilment with monsters. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
Also, they were critical of Mr. Vekselberg's public shyness and his embroilment in a criminal investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Renova Nears Sulzer Takeover] Reference
It also passes over the puzzling and important question of what Syria wants from its embroilment in Lebanon. From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Light on Lebanon] Reference
Later, Henry V asked Parliament what it would advise in "matters of foreign embroilment"; and when the King of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
So, there's a whole chain of events, an embroilment, that went on for many years prior to Diane Whipple's death. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2003] Reference
There was another client, elusive, predatory, veering to elvish embroilment when the territories were carved up at last. From Wordnik.com. [Days of Reckoning] Reference
The embroilment is this entanglement that Lincoln got himself into with Mary Todd that he never really could get himself out of. From Wordnik.com. [Honor's Voice: The Transformation of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
“I scarcely see how to take this,” he said, being clever enough to suppose that a dash of candour might sweeten the embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
Modern philosophy and literature have expressed the persistent embroilment of secular thought in the issues of the traditional theodicies. From Wordnik.com. [PROBLEM OF EVIL] Reference
Hence international jealousies and eventual embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
Red's dialogue is spattered with highlights of each embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
Yet she too must be caught in this embroilment of evil and retribution. From Wordnik.com. [Powell's Books: Overview] Reference
Golden Sow, and of his consequent embroilment with the amorous landlady. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg] Reference
All embroilment was saved by the Deerhound being in good steaming order. From Wordnik.com. [London: Saturday, June 25, 1864] Reference
Austria, in order that the Western States, whose embroilment left Eastern. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
And then came that horrible embroilment -- oh, how well he remembered it. From Wordnik.com. [What's Bred in the Bone] Reference
His politics were weighty-his embroilment in Jamaican party rivalries in the. From Wordnik.com. [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference
Oregon embroilment had led certain British journals into gross speech about America. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
One sentence of common sense brought the absurd embroilment to a rational conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
The contemporary embroilment of politics with the pop culture is quite disconcerting. From Wordnik.com. [Pajamas Media] Reference
Court with him, in the throes of the Queen's latest and final matrimonial embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [Raleigh] Reference
Again, a further embroilment lay in the propositions that had been made privately to the. From Wordnik.com. [Oddsfish!] Reference
The unpalatable fruits of the embroilment had to be eaten and digested at the present crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1] Reference
We'll leave the retelling of Randy's personal life and embroilment in fight politics to others. From Wordnik.com. [FanHouse] Reference
"Imbroglio" and "embroilment" are more than just synonyms; they're also linked through etymology. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
Madrid, there to spin new schemes for the embroilment of nations and the advancement of his own family. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The future of Greece engaged Sir Charles's attention far more constantly than this South African embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1] Reference
Does like join itself to like; does the spirit of method stir in that confusion, so that its embroilment becomes order?. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
(M831) The embroilment of Carthage with the Grecian States on this island was the occasion of the first rupture with Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
"I scarcely see how to take this," he said, being clever enough to suppose that a dash of candour might sweeten the embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
Different from both would be the value of a peace by neglect of such useless national discriminations as now make for embroilment. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
The manner in which Sir George tackled the South African embroilment, appears in his treatment of that mongrel race, the Hottentots. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B.] Reference
He saw clearly enough the embroilment into which Lionel had landed himself; but he could not see so clearly how he was to get out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Fortunatus] Reference
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