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
Without going on that neck of land she could not be reached by the gun, and this passage was grimly guarded by that sloping embattlement of ice.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
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