Embattled vs Embattlement - What's the difference?
embattled | embattlement |
Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
Prepared or armed for battle.
Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations.
(heraldry) Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions.
(embattle)
(countable) A battlement.
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, passage=This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner?: for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements , statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.}}
* 1970 , Anthony Langham, Myrtle Ternstrom, Lundy
(uncountable) The state of being embattled.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 26, author=Alissa J. Rubin, title=Iraq’s Leader Pushes for Election Gains, but Some Fear Iron Hand, work=New York Times
, passage=While that seems unlikely any time soon, such experiences of terror and embattlement have shaped the way Mr. Maliki governs. }}
As an adjective embattled
is subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.As a verb embattled
is (embattle).As a noun embattlement is
(countable) a battlement.embattled
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(head)embattlement
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- Embattlements and towers may have formed part of the original structure
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