Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of embroiling, or the state of being embroiled; a state of contention, perplexity, or confusion; disturbance; entanglement.
Wiktionary
- n. The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation
Examples
“Our noun "embroilment," which also entered the language in the early 17th century, comes from the same source.”
“The most difficult task has been persuading the arts establishment that this is work to be taken seriously by art collectors and your regular visitor to Tate Modern, that it somehow transcends what we instinctively fear is an art contaminated by its embroilment with other disciplines.”
“Also, they were critical of Mr. Vekselberg's public shyness and his embroilment in a criminal investigation.”
“I have heard enough since I came here, to satisfy me that a cavalier of honour is free to take any part in this civil embroilment whilk he may find most convenient for his own peculiar.”
“He knew that even in the dispute respecting the supremacy of Scotland, his Holiness had set up a claim to the kingdom which, in the temper of the times, might perhaps have been deemed superior both to that of Robert Bruce, and that of Edward of England, and he conceived his monarch would give him little thanks for any fresh embroilment which might take place with the Church.”
“Hain in the meantime hasn't a clue what's going on and is beginning to realise that any further embroilment in Welsh Labour's campaign will almost certainly ruin what slim chances he had of becoming Deputy PM.”
“And upon arriving in Belgrade Zimmermann wasted no time in demonstrating that American policy favored Albanian interests over those of the Serbs in this complex embroilment.”
““I scarcely see how to take this,” he said, being clever enough to suppose that a dash of candour might sweeten the embroilment.”
“There was another client, elusive, predatory, veering to elvish embroilment when the territories were carved up at last.”
“So, there's a whole chain of events, an embroilment, that went on for many years prior to Diane Whipple's death.”
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