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  • noun Plural form of imbrication.

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Examples

  • It is the mediation between realities that one enters with total emotional investment, imbrications of existences between the living and those about to die.

    In the Fullness of Time Emily W. Upham 2010

  • To reflect on the aesthetic is necessarily, as our authors show, to reflect on language, history, and the subject; it is to have patience with the problem of why and how powerful texts at once compel and resist reading; it is to pause over the uncertain mutual imbrications of textuality and psychic and political life.

    Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

  • Not out of any mechanical imbrications nor through artificial concoction, but as a natural transmutation of the present infirmities by organically seeking to overcome and embody harmony.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • The two score heavy volumes of his collected works are a testimony to the imbrications of esoteric with the academic.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • The two score heavy volumes of his collected works are a testimony to the imbrications of esoteric with the academic.

    Esoteric and the academic Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • The linkage between the two is less of the manner of an umbilical chord and more in the nature of interpenetrating imbrications.

    The other worlds Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • The linkage between the two is less of the manner of an umbilical chord and more in the nature of interpenetrating imbrications.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • The linkage between the two is less of the manner of an umbilical chord and more in the nature of interpenetrating imbrications.

    The other worlds Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • The linkage between the two is less of the manner of an umbilical chord and more in the nature of interpenetrating imbrications.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Pawning their safety for the Queen's, the pigs graft their political convictions onto their own persons, reminding us again of the play's consistent imbrications of politics and the body.

    Shelley 2001

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