[f. ENTANGLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENTANGLE.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Embaraço, let, stop, entangling.

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a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Irene, Wks. 170. Anxious entangling and perplexing of consciences.

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1754.  Richardson, Grandison, III. xv. 117. This entangling, with all its painful consequences.

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