em·bat·tle·ment ( m-b t l-m nt,  m-)n. See battlement. |
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This liberalism of fear involves a sense of political embattlement, rather than real emotion, but it does suggest how the vocabulary of fear is penetrating a growing range of discourse. Although Mullins was careful not to enumerate the reasons for his vindication, he clearly felt satisfaction after his winter of embattlement. Like Machiavelli's Discorso, these texts disclose a sense of embattlement, as their authors seek to reclaim something they perceive as lost, namely the consensus about the centrality of their language. |
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