Definition of "embattlement" [em•bat•tle•ment]

• See battlement. (noun)

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• "We would thus expect them to stick together, if only owing to a sense of embattlement."
• "Even as late as 2006, after a quarter century of rising national prominence and power,43 more than two thirds of evangelical Protestants in our Faith Matters survey said that they felt that their values were “seriously” or “moderately threatened in America today,” a sense of embattlement greater than in any other major religious tradition."
• "While a sense of embattlement with secular Americans may cause different religious traditions to pull together, tensions among religious traditions still exist."