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/ɛmbrˈeɪs/ /ɪmbrˈeɪs/ 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.

noun

Embrace n. Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug. "We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses."

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Etymology of 'Embrace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— 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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