2. Verb. (third-person singular of embrace) ¹
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Definition of Embraces
1. embrace [v] - See also: embrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embraces
Literary usage of Embraces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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