embracement

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

From Middle English embracement, enbracement, from Old French embrassement; equivalent to embrace + -ment.

When he was come, a thousand huggings, a thousand embracements, a thousand good days were given. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
In these first embracements, most ardently sought of the count, the lady, by God's pleasure, became with child of two sons, as her delivery in due time made manifest. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio
I cannot measure so as to know, how much love there yet lacketh to me, ere my life may run into Thy embracements, nor turn away, until it be hidden in the hidden place of Thy Presence. — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine

embrace, embracing

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