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Embracing   /ɛmbrˈeɪsɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Embrace  v. t.  To fasten on, as armor. (Obs.)


Embrace  v. t.  (past & past part. embraced; pres. part. embracing)  
1.
To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug. "I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, That he shall shrink under my courtesy." "Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them."
2.
To cling to; to cherish; to love.
3.
To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome. "I embrace these conditions." "You embrace the occasion." "What is there that he may not embrace for truth?"
4.
To encircle; to encompass; to inclose. "Low at his feet a spacious plain is placed, Between the mountain and the stream embraced."
5.
To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences. "Not that my song, in such a scanty space, So large a subject fully can embrace."
6.
To accept; to undergo; to submit to. "I embrace this fortune patiently."
7.
(Law) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
Synonyms: To clasp; hug; inclose; encompass; include; comprise; comprehend; contain; involve; imply.


Embrace  v. i.  To join in an embrace.





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"Embracing" Quotes from Famous Books



... a visitor was announced. It was Monsieur le Vicomte de Beaufort, Lafayette's young kinsman and officer in the American war, who came in directly, bowing to Mr. Morris, whom he had known well in America, and embracing Calvert with a friendly fervor that almost five years of separation had not diminished. He had known of his coming through Mr. Jefferson, and, happening to pass the hotel, had stopped to inquire at the porter's lodge whether the travellers ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... Journals of a most interesting period, embracing several years between 1666 and 1692, were irretrievably lost. Others sustained less damage, and were partially preserved. Some ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... books embracing many adventures under our famous naval commanders, and with our army during the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Founded on sound history, these books are written for boys, with the idea of combining pleasure with profit; to cultivate a fondness for study—especially ...
— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish
... appear strange, that the account of the Creation of living beings should be of such limited extent, embracing only reptiles, birds, and mammals. A little consideration, however, will remove this apparent strangeness. We should, perhaps, naturally expect to have some notice of the first appearance of animal life; but from the circumstances under which Moses wrote such a notice was simply impossible. ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland
... leaves soft and elastic to the prickles below,—because the young oaks sheltered us behind, and we had a charming outlook over the brook in front, between a gnarled alder and a young sycamore, whose embracing branches were ...
— Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men • Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


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