The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
1 Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement , rolled past them over the vitrified highway.
2 He had seen the beginning of what promised to be an endless passionate embracement , and at the sight he had fled.
3 If they be aswoon for this their foregathering and embracement , they will come to themselves, and if otherwise, do thou flee.
4 Both depicting journeys of discovery, embracement , dignity and self; and for the rest of us a lesson to remember to look beyond the shadows.
5 His arms are carelessly used, as if their best use was nothing but embracements .
6 When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements , a thousand good days were given.
7 9 That I may more delight in your embracement dear.'
8 After the ordinary embracements , which were more tender than ever, he enquired if none were sick within the college?
9 5 In wanton lust and lewd embracement :
10 5 Coyly rebutted his embracement light;
11 The sight of the saint, and his embracements , gave such consolations to Anger, that he no longer doubted of receiving an entire satisfaction from him.
12 Thy embracements are more delicate than those of a young bride with her lover, and to be divorced from thee is half to be damned!
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