half-embrace
nounEtymology
From half- + embrace.
- derived from *imbracchiāre✻
- derived from embracer
- inherited from embracen — “to clasp in one's arms, embrace; to reach out eagerly for, welcome; to enfold, entwine; to ensnare, entangle; to twist, wrap around; to gird, put on; to lace; to be in or put into bonds; to put a shield on the arm; to grasp (a shield or spear); to acquire, take hold of; to receive; to undertake; to affect, influence; to incite; to unlawfully influence a jury; to surround; to conceal, cover; to shelter; to protect; to comfort; to comprehend, understand”
Definitions
A partial hug.
An ambivalent acceptance or adoption.
- This half-embrace of failure, as Coward suggests, is something the British like to think of as distinctly British.
To embrace or wrap around partially.
- Flowers destitute of ray; leaves pinnatised, toothed, half-embracing the stem.
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To adopt in an ambivalent or partial manner.
- One solution, which his own England would later half-embrace, was socialism or collectivism, “in which the means of production” are “in the hands of the political officers of the community.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA