embattlement

[em-bat-l-muhnt]

noun

1. battlement.

Word History and Origins

Origin of embattlement¹

First recorded in 1400–1450, embattlement is from the late Middle English word embatailment. See embattle ², -ment

Example Sentences

While conservative Christians have always felt some degree of embattlement.

From Salon

Set in and around a lakeside town school where a mother’s righteous clash with a new teacher parallels the growing bond between two outsider kids, this exquisitely rendered work from Kore-eda is a delicate web of compassion and embattlement: three separate views of one stretch of momentous time, spun and re-spun with care and craft.

From Los Angeles Times

More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.

From Seattle Times

White evangelicals — the group most beholden to Christian nationalist ideology — have long been characterized by what sociologist Christian Smith called an idea of "embattlement."

From Salon

For disparate Germans to come together required a common sense of embattlement.

From Washington Post

Related Words

• barricade 
• citadel 
• fortress 
• reinforcement