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Definition of Embracing

1. Noun. The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection).

Definition of Embracing

1. Verb. (present participle of embrace) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embracing

1. embrace [v] - See also: embrace

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embracing

Literary usage of Embracing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"I do not claim the use of friction rollers, embracing and guiding the edge of a circular saw, as these have been previously used for that purpose; ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"One in which a slight amount of embracing occurs, but no change in outline of whorl, is represented by a line on 0 —A, the length of which marks the ..."

3. 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)
"... embracing sodium chloride, or common salt, oxides, silicates, phosphates, nitrates, sulphates, and the hydrocarbons : namely, coal, coke and their ..."

4. The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and by Frederic Seebohm (1905)
"THE HUNDRED BOLLS OF EDWARD I., Embracing FIVE MIDLAND COUNTIES. The facts thus learned from the Winslow Manor Bolls throw just that flash of light upon the ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"A LIST Embracing New Spring Fiction By GASTON LEROUX Author о/"Mystery of the Yellow Room" THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Pictures in color by André Castaigne. ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Clement Tudway Swanston, John Scott Eldon (1823)
"... which I consider as embracing a power to appoint to the children who should survive, with a gift to them in default of appointment. ..."

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