embattlement
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of embattlement
First recorded in 1400–1450, embattlement is from the late Middle English word embatailment. See embattle 2, -ment
Example Sentences
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More recent events have contributed to a sense of embattlement in the Black community.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
The answer, I learned in conversation with colleagues who had signed a petition demanding an apology from me, was that I had triggered the evangelical sense of embattlement.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2020
I had taken a similar survey a few miles down the valley at theNewtonmore club, which, as though sharing a feeling of embattlement, has reciprocal membership with Kingussie.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 14, 2020
In New Jersey, Lieberman said, that misery only intensified the usual, everyday slighting from New Yorkers, Philadelphians and others — what Lieberman pinpoints as New Jersey’s constant state of embattlement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2020
A sound public opinion is the best embattlement of any home front.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
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