[f. TANGLE v.1 + -MENT.] The fact or condition of being tangled; an instance of this; a tangle.

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1831.  J. Wilson, Unimore, ii. 199. All matted thick with briery tanglement Like Indian Jungle.

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1879.  J. Morison in Expositor, IX. 122. A little tanglement of phraseology.

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1892.  Chambers’s Jrnl., 6 Aug., 508/2. We lay utterly helpless amidst this tanglement of weeds.

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