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Definition of Embraces

1. embrace [v] - See also: embrace

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Embraces

emboxed emboxes emboxing embrace embrace embraceable embraced embracement embracements embraceor

embraceors embracer embraceries embracers embracery embraces (current term) embracing embracingly embracive embraid

embraided embraids embranchment embrangle embrangled embranglement embranglements embrangles embrangling embrasor

Literary usage of Embraces

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1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It embraces a period of eight centuries, from the founding of the city (900), ... Bamberg, ARCHDIOCESE OF, in the kingdom of Bavaria, embraces almost the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"30, pi. vi. lantic, in a triangular space between the Azores, Canaries and Cape Verde islands, the sargasso sea embraces an area equalling the Mississippi ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... to travail,) giveing the last embraces to his onely Son, Brothers parting in Tears, and the dearest ..."

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