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involvement|ɪnˈvɒlvmənt|
[f. as prec. + -ment.]
1. The action or process of involving; the fact of being involved; the condition of being implicated, entangled, or engaged; engagement, embarrassment; financial or pecuniary embarrassment.
1706A. Shields Inq. Ch. Comm. (1747) 46 There is no involvement either in personal guilt or accession to the guilt of others. 1776T. Hutchinson Diary July II. 80 With frugality [it] would enable me to spend a few weeks abroad without involvement [i.e. in debt]. 1802G. Colman Poor Gentleman v. ii. 74 He has left me in involvements, which, in a few hours, may inclose me in a prison. 1855Lynch Lett. to Scattered vii. 94 How the innocent suffer with the evil, by necessary involvement. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 676 There are certain palsies..in which the muscular structure is..destroyed independently of any involvement of the nervous system.
b. An involved or entangled condition, manner, or style; complicated state of affairs, imbroglio.
1821Foster in Life & Corr. (1846) II. 35 Further complaints of obscurity, involvement [etc.]. 1862Fraser's Mag. July 63 The plot..depended..on the ‘involvement’ consequent on the fact that every one except her grandmother is in love with the gentle and lovely Celeste. 1883Gd. Words Dec. 791/2 Evil and good..are interlaced together in seemingly hopeless involvement. 1884Wedmore in Academy 9 Feb. 100 He sets forth his discovery, not with style..but crabbedly, with involvement.
†2. An enveloping structure; a wrapping; an envelope, case, or covering. Obs.
1630H. R. Mythomystes 30 Orpheus, within the foulds and inuoluements of fables, hid the misteries of his doctrine. Ibid. 80 Among such may they euer rest, safe wrapt up in their huskes and inuoluements.
3. That which is involved or implied in something; a necessary consequence or condition.
1879‘E. Garrett’ (Mrs. Mayo) Ho. by Wks. I. 110 She will presently see the curious involvements and necessities of English society. 1881Fraser Berkeley 210 The issue of creative will, rather than necessary involvements of finite experience. |