embracement means A clasp in the arms; embrace. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From Middle English embracement, enbracement, from Old French embrassement; equivalent to embrace + -ment.
noun
- A clasp in the arms; embrace.“Kinde wordes, and mutuall talke, makes our greefe greater.
Therefore with dum imbracement let vs part,”
- State of embracing, encompassing or including various items; inclusion.“The question of flies—using that, to a woodsman, eminently connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sand-flies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges—is one much mooted in the craft.”
- Act or state of embracing or accepting; willing acceptance.“[…] what Destiny has ordered I am resolved with an adventerous Resolution to subscribe to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy it.”
- State of being contained; enclosure.“[…] the Sun […] of himself, ever shineth and seeth all things, if his Beams be not stopt with a Cloud or some other thick imbracement […]”