Embracement

Definitions

1. A clasp in the arms; embrace.
   countable, uncountable
2. State of embracing, encompassing or including various items; inclusion.
   countable, uncountable
3. Act or state of embracing or accepting; willing acceptance.
   countable, uncountable
4. State of being contained; enclosure.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Kinde wordes, and mutuall talke, makes our greefe greater. Therefore with dum imbracement let⟳ vs part,”

“What was that but a kinde, tender, and fatherly farwell which he tooke of his children? representing the last⟳ adiewes, and parting imbracements [translating embrassemens], which at our death we give⟳ unto our dearest issues?”

“1932, Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 11, Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway.”

“The question⟳ of flies—using that, to a woodsman, eminently connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges—is one much mooted in the craft.”

“[…] what Destiny has ordered I am resolved with an adventerous Resolution to subscribe⟳ to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy⟳ it.”

“His embracement of Popery beginning to make⟳ a noise, he decoyed several of the most eminent Protestant clergymen in France to give⟳ assurances of the contrary.”

“1994, Robert Alun Jones, Durkheim’s Imperative: “The Role of Humanities Faculty in the Information Technologies Revolution” in Brett Sutton (editor), Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 175, […] I believe⟳ that it is this moral dimension of the division of intellectual labor that leads many of us to feel⟳ discomfort as we survey the detritus of our traditional roles, the havoc provoked by our attraction to and embracement of these powerful technologies.”

“[…] the Sun […] of himself, ever shineth and seeth all things, if his Beams be not stopt with a Cloud or some other thick imbracement […]”

“The Heath itself when they came to it was a white wilderness within the embracement of black rocks and mountains.”

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