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George C. Scott plays a World War II sub captain in a dilemmatic moment: Japanese ships are cross-haired in his periscope as the atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trilemma, trī-lem′a, n. a dilemmatic syllogism with three alternative propositions.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The soundness of the dilemmatic argument in general depends on the alternative possibilities.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

The following is the "dilemmatic" meaning of this crisis.

From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Balzac, Honoré de