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Definition of Embraceries
1. embracery [n] - See also: embracery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embraceries
Literary usage of Embraceries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1840)
"... of unlawful maintenances, giving of living signs and tokens, retainers by
indenture, promises, oaths, writings, and other embraceries of his subjects, ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1865)
"It recites, " the king, considering the manifold robberies, murders, thefts,
trespasses, riots, routs, embraceries, maintenances, oppressions, ..."
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