† disembracev.
Obsolete.
transitive. (a) To refrain or withdraw from embracing. (b) To undo embracing or the embraces of anything.
ΚΠ
1641 J. Sherman Greek in Temple sig. C3 The Teacher of the Gentiles instructeth us Christians not to disembrace goodnesse in any, nor truth in any.
Derivatives
disemˈbracement n. the act of disembracing.
ΘΚΠ
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1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Bb2 They bedust one another, to hinder dis-imbracements..and by drying his body, to strengthen his hold on his adversary.
disemˈbracing adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > [adjective] > removed or taken away > forcibly plucking away
disembracing1775
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) I. 192 Torn away by the disembracing grasp of death.
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