Definition of Embrace

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Embrace

To fasten on, as armor.

To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

To cling to; to cherish; to love.

To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.

To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.

To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

To accept; to undergo; to submit to.

To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.

To join in an embrace.

Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

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Embrace Quotations

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Kahlil Gibran

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Marcus Aurelius

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
Charles R. Swindoll

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.
Vera Wang

Embrace Translations

embrace in Danish is omfavne
embrace in Dutch is omhelzen, omarmen
embrace in French is embrassement, embrasser, embrassons, embrassent
embrace in German is umarmen, umarmen, umarme
embrace in Italian is abbracciare
embrace in Latin is complectus, complexo
embrace in Norwegian is omfavne
embrace in Portuguese is abranger
embrace in Spanish is abrazar
embrace in Swedish is omfatta, omfamning, krama, omfamna, famna

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