Meaning of Embrace | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.
2. An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
   figuratively
3. Full acceptance (of something).
   figuratively
4. An act of enfolding or including.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“[E]yes, looke your laſt, / Armes take your laſt embrace: and lips, O you / The doores of breath, ſeale with a righteous kiſſe / A dateleſſe bargain to ingroſſing death: […]”

“That Gentleman I mean to make the model of my Fortunes, and in his chaſt imbraces keep alive the memory of my loſt lovely Loveleſe: he is ſomewhat like him too.”

“[A] long and affectionate embrace supplied the place of language in bidding each other adieu; […]”

“[…] And tears are on the mother’s face, ⁠As parting with a long embrace She enters other realms of love; […]”

“[A] delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. "Phil! You! Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.”

“When he reached the ridge the outlying fog crept across the summit, caught him in its embrace, and wrapped him from her gaze.”

“We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory.”

“And it was the white blood which sent him to the minister, which rising in him for the last and final time, sent him against all reason and all reality, into the embrace of a chimera, a blind faith in something read in a printed Book.”

“It then occurred to Barbara, and recurred more strongly after she had learned of Ricky's marriage and her sale of the school in England, her eager embrace of Islam, and the total handing over of her lot to Joe Ramdez, that there had been no secret state of mind in Ricky.”

“In India men are enjoined to be fully awake to the fact that they are in the closest relation to things around them, body and soul, and that they are to hail the morning sun, the flowing water, the fruitful earth, as the manifestation of the same living truth which holds them in its embrace.”

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