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Embrace

verb

(past & past part. embraced; pres. part. embracing)

1.

Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory. Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass. "This should cover everyone in the group"

2.

Squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness. Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze. "They embraced" , "He hugged her close to him"

3.

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own. Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up. "They adopted the Jewish faith"

noun

1.

The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection). Synonyms: embracement, embracing.

2.

The state of taking in or encircling.

3.

A close affectionate and protective acceptance. Synonym: bosom. "In the bosom of the family"

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"Embrace" Quotes from Famous Books

... the term "Art" is becoming narrowed; "work of Art" to most people means a picture, a statue, or a piece of bijouterie; by way of compensation "artist" has included in its wide embrace cooks and ballet girls, no less than ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

... afar off, dimly, on the horizon of their mental vision; as one looks into the distance and cannot tell whether what he sees be cloud or mountain. And until they could make up their minds that there was some substance in the vision, they did not embrace it. They were not credulous. Neither were they carelessly or heedlessly sure that there was and could be nothing in the vision but mist and fancy. They recognized that on their decision of the question hung the life of which they meant to make the very most. They looked again ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... farther than this; for there are many shades of difference between those who flatly renounce, and those who cordially embrace the doctrine of Redemption by Christ. This class has a sort of general, indeterminate, and ill understood dependence on our blessed Saviour. But their hopes, so far as they can be distinctly made out (for their views also are very obscure) appear ultimately to bottom on the persuasion that they ...

— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce

... still intensely black; yet the gloom of the depths was lessened by a vague pale illumination, a faint shadow of light that might have been the ghost of a dead day. He thought it was the gray dawn, and sought to roll over on his rock bed away from the sheltering embrace of Blake. The engineer was still deep in profound slumber. His big arm slipped laxly from across the moving ...

— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet

... support For the calamities of mortal life Exists—one only: an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power, Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting ...

— The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) - 1809-1859 • John Morley

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