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noun

Embracement n.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. "Dear though chaste embracements."

State of being contained; inclosure. (Obs.) "In the embracement of the parts hardly reparable, as bones."

Willing acceptance. (Obs.) "A ready embracement of... his kindness."

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Etymology of 'Embracement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Embracement" Quotes from Famous Books

... with clear perceptions, as they think, of their own duty, do not see how too eager a pursuit of one duty may involve them in the violation of others, or how too warm an embracement of one truth may lead to a disregard of other truths just as important. As I heard it stated strongly, not many days ago, these persons are disposed to mount upon some particular duty, as upon a war-horse, and to drive furiously on and upon and over all other duties that may stand in the ...

— American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various

... thee letters and monies. Arise ere the day wax bright and thou be in perplexed plight and perdition upon thy head alight!" Quoth he, "O my lady, I beseech thee of thy favour to bid me farewell with thine embracement;" and quoth she, "No harm in that."[FN56] So he embraced her and knew her carnally; after which he made the Ghusl-ablution; then, donning the dress of a white slave, he bade the syces saddle him a thoroughbred steed. Accordingly, ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... my mind is the "Nativity" belonging to Mr. Fuller Maitland. Poetic imagination in a painter has produced nothing more graceful and more tender than the dance of angels in the air above, and the embracement of the angels and the ...

— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds

... With passioned and thrilling embracement, With straining of breast unto breast, With sighing and trembling and transport— In lust's unrestrained, ...

— Russian Lyrics • Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi