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Definition of Embroglios
1. embroglio [n] - See also: embroglio
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embroglios
Literary usage of Embroglios
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1892)
"On every side the leading English trades were threatened; and the embroglios
which followed with the Spaniards rendered it impossible for King William to ..."
2. The Fortnightly Review (1882)
"If merely on account of the immense area covered by this section of England's
ever-green native embroglios, permanent effects cannot in any case be expected ..."
3. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1834)
"... think such strange embroglios in the least calculated to raise a sublime or
a religious idea. For my own part, I turned from them with disgust, ..."
4. Forces in Fiction: And Other Essays by Richard Burton (1902)
"... the tragedies of unconventional sex relations as it was for Dickens to sum up
those of the oppressed poor or Thackeray to describe family embroglios. ..."
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