entrammel
verbEtymology From en- + trammel.
1
To hamper by entangling.
- The implicit theology of the Hebrew Bible dictates a complex moral and psychological realism in biblical narrative because God's purposes are always entrammeled in history, dependent on the acts of individual men and women for their continuing realization.1981, Robert Alter, “A Literary Approach to the Bible”, in The Art of Biblical Narrative, page 12:
- Derived terms
- unentrammeled, unentrammelled