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Definition of Imbittering
1. imbitter [v] - See also: imbitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbittering
Literary usage of Imbittering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"... and if the suspicion of being pitied for any thing in his lot surmised or
known in spite of himself was imbittering, the idea of calling forth a show of ..."
2. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"... who made those very sons, whose fortunes he had so anxiously established, the
means of imbittering his future life, and disturbing his government. ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"If I succeed in breaking up Mildred's infatuation by this plan which you approve,"
she said to her husband, " I run the risk, I am afraid, of imbittering ..."
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