embracement
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embracement
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From Middle English embracement, enbracement, from Old French embrassement; equivalent to embrace + -ment.
noun embracements · imbracement
- An act of encircling another with one's arms and pulling them to one's chest, a hug. Kinde wordes, and mutuall talke, makes our greefe greater. Therefore with dum imbracement let vs part,
- The state of embracing, 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.
- An act of embracing, full acceptance. […] what Destiny has ordered I am resolved with an adventerous Resolution to subscribe to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy it.
- An 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 […]
