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▪ I. embracement|ɛmˈbreɪsmənt|
Also 6–7 im-.
[f. embrace v. + -ment; or a. OF. embracement, F. embrassement: see embrace v.2]
The action of embracing.
1. An enfolding in the arms = embrace n. 1.
1485Caxton St. Wenefr. 2, I.. desyred the to be ioyned to myn enbracementes. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. xxiii. vii, She..went to him..With words..and with embracements. 1598Yong Diana 138 If thou knewest from whom this imbracement came. 1650Howell Revolutions in Naples 93 Masaniello, prostrating himself at the feet of the Viceroy, he kiss'd his knee, after which embracement, etc. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. (1851) 22 Conuvenna..after imbracements and teares, assails him with..a motherly power. 1720Welton Suffer. Son. of God I. viii. 176 Since I have shunn'd thy Dear Embracements, O Thou my Soul's Bridegroom. 1829J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXV. 553 Embracements that blended spirit with spirit! c1850Neale Hymns East. Ch. 52 Embrace me with the last embracement.
b. fig.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 192 To the end that..they might..cast them selves..into the armes and embracements of Spaine for safeguard. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1821) 21 Him that throws vertue into the embracements of vice. 1677Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 96 They..consider not that they have received into their embracement another [temptation].
c. transf. in certain occasional uses.
1580Sidney Arcadia 70 [The bear] being ready to giue me a shrewd embracement. 1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 480 Take a wide embracement of the water towards you, one good armful will bring you round directly.
†2. What one takes in hand, an undertaking. Cf. embrace v.2 2 h.
1630Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 37 [Sir Francis Walsingham] was one of the great allayes of the Austerian embracements. a1662Heylin Laud ii. 506 Some..complained, that his Embracements were too large and general.
3. A clasping, encircling, closely surrounding.
1626Bacon Sylva §58 The Parts in Mans body easily reparable, as Spirits, Bloud, and Flesh, die in the Embracement of the Parts hardly reparable, as Bones, Nerues and Membranes. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 80 Ravenna, situate in the embracement of two Rivers. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 95 Quick, each hand with sure embracement hold the dagger by the hilt!
b. fig. An embracing or taking in with the eye or the mind.
1599Davies Immort. Soul 23 Nor can her wide Embracements filled bee. 1837Howitt Rur. Life v. iii. (1862) 386 Their intellectual vision widened to the embracement of the universe.
4. fig. An approving acceptance (of a doctrine, religion, etc.); a cheerful acceptance (of something offered).
1535in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxiii. 157 Affection towards the favorable embrasement of Gods word. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. ix. (1632) 242 The Conuersion of the Northumbrians to the imbracement of Christian Religion. 1666G. Alsop Maryland (1869) 89 What Destiny has ordered I am resolved..to subscribe to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy it. 1713Beveridge Priv. Th. ii. 106 Their Wills in the Embracement of the Chiefest Good.
▪ II. embracement
var. f. embrasement, Obs. |