embracement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.36 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Kinde wordes, and mutuall talke, makes our greefe greater. Therefore with dum imbracement let vs part,"
- "What was that but a kinde, tender, and fatherly farwell which he tooke of his children? representing the last adiewes, and parting imbracements [translating embrassemens], which at our death we give unto our dearest issues?"
- "1932, Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 11, Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway."
- "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."
- "[…] what Destiny has ordered I am resolved with an adventerous Resolution to subscribe to, and with a contented imbracement enjoy it."
- "His embracement of Popery beginning to make a noise, he decoyed several of the most eminent Protestant clergymen in France to give assurances of the contrary."
Etymology
From Middle English embracement, enbracement, from Old French embrassement; equivalent to embrace + -ment.