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embracement

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em⋅brace

1  [em-breys] verb, -braced, -brac⋅ing, noun
Use embracement in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to take or clasp in the arms; press to the bosom; hug.
2. to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea.
3. to avail oneself of: to embrace an opportunity.
4. to adopt (a profession, a religion, etc.): to embrace Buddhism.
5. to take in with the eye or the mind.
6. to encircle; surround; enclose.
7. to include or contain: An encyclopedia embraces a great number of subjects.
–verb (used without object)
8. to join in an embrace.
–noun
9. an act or instance of embracing.
Origin:
1300–50; ME < AF, OF embracier, equiv. to em- em- 1 + bracier to embrace, deriv. of brace the two arms; see brace

Related forms:
em⋅brace⋅a⋅ble, adjective
em⋅brace⋅ment, noun
em⋅brac⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. adopt, espouse, welcome. 3. seize. 7. comprise, cover, embody. See include.

Antonyms:
7. exclude.
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em·brace   (ěm-brās')   
v.   em·braced, em·brac·ing, em·brac·es

v.   tr.

  1. To clasp or hold close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection.

    1. To surround; enclose: We allowed the warm water to embrace us.

    2. To twine around: a trellis that was embraced by vines.

  3. To include as part of something broader. See Synonyms at include.

  4. To take up willingly or eagerly: embrace a social cause.

  5. To avail oneself of: "I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace" (Henry James).

v.   intr.
To join in an embrace.
n.  

  1. An act of holding close with the arms, usually as an expression of affection; a hug.

  2. An enclosure or encirclement: caught in the jungle's embrace.

  3. Eager acceptance: your embrace of Catholicism.


[Middle English embracen, from Old French embracer : en-, in; see en-1 + brace, the two arms; see brace.]
em·brace'a·ble adj., em·brace'ment n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

embrace 
c.1300, from O.Fr. embracer "clasp in the arms, enclose," from en- "in" + brace "the arms," from L. bracchium (neut. pl. brachia). Replaced O.E. clyppan, also fæðm.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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