ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made bitter, or more bitter. (Chiefly fig.; cf. senses of the vb.)

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1655.  Milton, Lett. State (1851), 333. Their imbitter’d and most implacable Enemies.

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a. 1716.  South, 12 Serm. (1717), V. 88. The Remorseless Malice of Imbitter’d Rebels.

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1797.  Godwin, Enquirer, I. viii. 69. My temper becomes embittered.

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1849.  Mill, Ess. (1859), II. 364. The embittered denunciations against the circulars and proclamations.

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  Hence † Embitteredness. Obs.

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1643.  A. Tuckney, Balme of Gilead, 35. If imbitterednesse of spirit against God … can make it … Englands present disease … is grown pestilentially malignant.

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1645.  Ricraft, Looking Gl. Anabapt., 15. I hope I shall give you some thing from the word of truth that may remove your imbitterednesse of spirit against our Congregations.

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