embracement

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A clasp in the arms

   A clasp in the arms; embrace.

   • 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.
2. 2

   State of embracing, encompassing or including various items

   State of embracing, encompassing or including various items; inclusion.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Act or state of embracing or accepting

   Act or state of embracing or accepting; willing acceptance.

   • […] 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.
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   1. 4

      State of being contained

      State of being contained; enclosure.

      • […] 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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