单词 | re-embrace |
释义 | re-embracen. rare. A renewed embrace. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xi. 190 While, fighting quietly, the jaws enjoy Their re-embrace in mid back-bone. 1975 Yale Law Jrnl. 84 996 I think legalists and other utopians encourage a re-embrace of the status quo. 2007 MMR (Nexis) 10 Dec. 13 The retailer's re-embrace of its core customer has regalvanized the chain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). re-embracev. transitive and intransitive. To embrace again. Frequently figurative in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [verb (transitive)] > again re-embrace1611 re-embosom1642 reclasp1793 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Rimbracciare, to imbrace againe, to re-imbrace. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. 57 Why should you re-embrace..the things, which you haue thus abiured? 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ix. 4 His Daughter and her Sweet-heart coming to re-imbrace each other. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 48 When their Souls they re~embrace. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 59 He takes his Leave, To re-embrace, in Ecstasies, at Eve. 1810 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. Nov. 242 Some days before..a letter had been wrote, To tell how soon he should appear, And re-embrace his dearest dear. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. iii. 311 His Majesty, who ‘wept’ like a paternal bear, on reëmbracing Wilhelmina. 1884 Overland Monthly Nov. 457 Don Sereno was embraced, and re-embraced. 1911 ‘M. Field’ Trag. Pardon iii. ii. 57 (stage direct.) Tristan (embracing and re-embracing Iseult). 1944 P. Larkin Let. 8 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 92 Who can this ambition trace, To be each dawn perpetually journeying? To cheat this hour when lovers re-embrace. 1987 D. Poliquin Obomsawin Sioux Junction (1991) xi. 91 Charlemagne had to re-embrace the Catholic Church before she would consent to marry him. 2006 G. De Stefano Offer we can't Refuse viii. 332 It also has been an excuse to re-embrace my heritage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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