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  • noun Plural form of embitterment.

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Examples

  • The Hellenes, holding them in suspicion, marched separately with the guides, and they encamped on each occasion a parasang apart, or rather less; and both parties kept watch upon each other as if they were enemies, which hardly tended to lull suspicion; and sometimes, whilst foraging for wood and grass and so forth on the same ground, blows were exchanged, which occasioned further embitterments.

    Anabasis 2007

  • On the one hand, there may be the elimination of useless embitterments and intensifications which are the price we pay for personalizing objective controversies.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • On the one hand, there may be the elimination of useless embitterments and intensifications which are the price we pay for personalizing objective controversies.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • On the one hand, there may be the elimination of useless embitterments and intensifications which are the price we pay for personalizing objective controversies.

    Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations Georg Simmel 1956

  • He comes to us a relic of the past -- a past that was full of hardships and glorious efforts in the face of daily disappointments, embitterments and rebuffs.

    Public Speaking Irvah Lester Winter

  • One of the happiest events in recent Pan-American diplomacy was the pacific, independent settlement by the Governments of Bolivia and Peru of a boundary difference between them, which for some weeks threatened to cause war and even to entrain embitterments affecting other republics less directly concerned.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • One of the happiest events in recent Pan-American diplomacy was the pacific, independent settlement by the Governments of Bolivia and Peru of a boundary difference between them, which for some weeks threatened to cause war and even to entrain embitterments affecting other republics less directly concerned.

    State of the Union Address William H. Taft 1893

  • He comes to us a relic of the past -- a past that has brought honor to many, wealth to some, and which is dear to all of us who love the completed purpose of their work; a past that was full of hardships and glorious efforts in the face of daily disappointments, embitterments, and rebuffs.

    The Exiles and Other Stories Richard Harding Davis 1890

  • The Hellenes, holding them in suspicion, marched separately with the guides, and they encamped on each occasion a parasang apart, or rather less; and both parties kept watch upon each other as if they were enemies, which hardly tended to lull suspicion; and sometimes, whilst foraging for wood and grass and so forth on the same ground, blows were exchanged, which occasioned further embitterments.

    Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

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